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    James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon PC PC (NI) DL (8 January 1871 – 24 November 1940), was a leading Irish unionist and a key architect of Northern Ireland...
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    named after the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland: James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon. It was intended to be the heart of a new linear city incorporating...
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  • 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...
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    Viscount Craigavon, of Stormont in the County of Down, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1927 for Sir James Craig, 1st...
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    position on the death of Hugh MacDowell Pollock; on the death of Lord Craigavon, in 1940, he became leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and the...
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    husband, James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon at a shooting party in County Tyrone. They were married in March 1905 at the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace...
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  • politician James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon (1871–1940), first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland James Craig, 2nd Viscount Craigavon (1906–1974)...
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    of a statue to Lord Craigavon in the Great Hall, halfway up the Imperial Staircase. Craigavon and his wife Viscountess Craigavon are buried in the estate...
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  • centred on the planned town Viscount Craigavon, title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon (1871–1940) first Prime Minister...
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    a single ill-equipped and overwhelmed military hospital. James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon – Future Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. Served as a...
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    that resulted from the Wall Street Crash. Craigavon ministry – led by James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon – 1922–1940. Andrews ministry – led by J. M...
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  • the 1st, or West Belfast battalion, during the Irish War of Independence in the 1920s. Reference is made to James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, the...
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    1959, was Deirdre Craven (1931–2023), a granddaughter of James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, by whom he had two children later in life, including the...
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  • Australia Mairead Corrigan (born 1944), Nobel Laureate (Peace) James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon (1871–1940), Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Reg Empey...
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  • Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1930) 1871 – James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish captain and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 1940)...
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  • O'Brien, soccer player and manager (born 1893). 24 November – James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (born 1871). Forde...
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  • surgeon (died 1978 in the United Kingdom). 24 November – James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (born 1871). 1940...
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  • remaining in the UK came to serve in Westminster as follows: James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland 1921–40, MP for East...
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    of current ministers in the Northern Ireland Executive. Viscount Craigavon from 1927 Viscount Brookeborough from 1952 Alan J. Ward, The Irish Constitutional...
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    Ireland's first Minister of Finance and deputy premier to James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon. The constituency was abolished in 1929; thus, Pollock moved...
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  • United Kingdom. The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, told his cabinet in May 1940 before a force like the Home...
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    1973. "Lieut-Colonel James Craig (Hansard)". api.parliament.uk. Retrieved 12 February 2024. Titles in Lords Viscount Craigavon 1927 - November 24, 1940...
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  • major air raid of the Bristol Blitz took place. Died: James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, 69, 1st Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Kichisaburō Nomura...
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    James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn KG CB PC (Ire) (24 August 1838 – 3 June 1913), styled Viscount Hamilton until 1868 and Marquess of Hamilton from...
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  • and gentrified industrial magnates (The 1st Viscount Craigavon and J. M. Andrews – nephew of The 1st Viscount Pirrie). Only its last Prime Minister, Brian...
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  • Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough Great-Grandson of George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington 3rd son of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough Eldest...
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  • 1929, 1933 and 1938 Northern Ireland general elections, James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon was elected unopposed. At the 1945 Northern Ireland general...
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  • Cup won by Master McGrath for the third time. 8 January – James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (died 1940). 14...
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  • Northern Ireland Parliament or the republican Dáil. Sir James Craig, (later Viscount Craigavon) was appointed Prime Minister of Northern Ireland on 7 June...
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    Unionists in Northern Ireland from Belfast to Craigavon, the home of James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, and addressed the crowd, declaring, "We must...
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