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Lewis Craig, Lord Wrightslands (1569–1622) was a Scottish judge and

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. Craig was the eldest surviving son of Thomas Craig of Riccarton and his wife, Helen Heriot, daughter of Heriot of Traboun. Lewis was educated at the then newly created

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, where he graduated M.A. in 1597. He studied the civil law at

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, was admitted a member of the

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in 1600, knighted and appointed an

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in 1604–5. He inherited his father's properties, Riccarton House, west of Edinburgh, plus a townhouse on Warriston Close off the

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, on his father's death in 1608. Craig married Beatrice Chyrnesyde. They had a son Thomas, and a daughter Janet, who married George Pringle.

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