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Sir Thomas Craig (c. 1538 – 26 February 1608) was a Scottish jurist and poet. ==Biography== His father was Robert Craig, an Edinburgh merchant, and his uncle was the Scottish theologian John Craig.〔 Sanderson, Margaret H.B., ''A Kindly Place?'', Tuckwell (2008), 108〕 Craig was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, and at the University of St Andrews, where he took the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1555. From St. Andrews he went to France, to study canon law and civil law. In Paris from 1555 to 1561, he studied civil law under François Baudouin. His work on feudal law shows the influence of François Hotman, which must be later. Craig returned to the Kingdom of Scotland about 1561, and was admitted advocate in February 1563. In 1564, he was appointed justice-depute by the justice-general, Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll; and in this capacity he presided at many of the criminal trials of the period in Edinburgh, and in 1606 was made procurator for the church. He never became a lord of session, a circumstance that was unquestionably due to his own choice. He is said to have refused the honour of knighthood which James I of England conferred on him in 1604. He had come to London as one of the Scottish commissioners regarding the personal union between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England, the only political object he seems to have cared about. But in accordance with James's command he has always been styled and reputed a knight. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Craig (jurist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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