James Craig, 2nd Viscount Craigavon explained

Honorific Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Viscount Craigavon
Office:Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Term Start:25 November 1940
Term End:18 May 1974
Hereditary Peerage
Predecessor:The 1st Viscount Craigavon
Successor:The 3rd Viscount Craigavon
Birth Date:2 March 1906
Death Date:18 May 1974 (aged 68)
Children:8
Spouse:Angela Tatchell

James Craig, 2nd Viscount Craigavon (2 March 1906  - 18 May 1974), was a British hereditary peer who sat in the House of Lords.

He was the son of James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and Cecil Mary Nowell Dering Craig. He succeeded to his father's peerage upon his death in 1940.

He was educated at Eton College and served in the Royal Navy. He later worked as a Liaison and Entertainments Officer[1] on the Orient Line and the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company on its Liner, Cruise and Round World Voyages. Lord Craigavon was married to Angela Fiona Tatchell (daughter of Percy Tatchell, MRCS) (1918-2007) and had three children:

Issue

Arms

Notes:Coat of arms of the Craig family
Crest:A demi-lion rampant per fess Gules and Sable holding in the dexter paw a mullet Or.
Escutcheon:Gules a fess Ermine between three bridges of as many arches Proper.
Supporters:Dexter a Constable of the Ulster Special Constabulary his hand resting on a rifle Proper sinister a Private of the Royal Ulster Rifles armed and accoutred also Proper.[2]
Motto:Charity Provokes Charity

Notes and References

  1. Book: Passenger List and General Information . 12 September 1956 . Orient Line . London . 1.
  2. Web site: Grants and Confirmations of Arms Volume M . 202 . National Library of Ireland . 24 August 2022.