Flora Marjory Fraser, 20th Lady Saltoun

Chief of the name of Fraser, author of "Clan Fraser A history celebrating over 800 years of the Family in Scotland" and two additional books on cooking. She has used her position as an active member in the House of Lords to argue forcefully for more government action on the problems of drug abuse in the UK.

Charles Edward Frazer

Member for: Kalgoorlie, WA, Australia 16.12.03-Died 25.11.13 Party: Australian Labor Party Born/Died: 2.1.1880-25.11.1913

Alexander Fraser, 17th Lord Saltoun

Author of the three volume "The Frasers of Philorth, Lords Saltoun", the most extensive and authoritative history of the family ever published.

Simon Fraser

Australian Senator for: Victoria, Australia 29.3.01-30.6.13 Party: Protectionist Party; Anti-Socialist Party from 1906 Born/Died: 21.8.1832-30.7.1919

General Simon Fraser of Saratoga

The British general, Simon Fraser, mortally wounded during the American Revolutionary War in the fierce battle near Saratoga, by the forces of Benedict Arnold of October 7, 1777 was buried near that site the following day.

James Reay Fraser

Member for: Australian Capital Territory, 28.4.51-Died 1.4.70 Party: Australian Labor Party Born/Died: 8.2.1908-1.4.1970

Alexander Fraser, 16th Lord Saltoun

"The Waterloo Saltoun", who commanded the Light Companies of the First Regiment of Guards. He is credited with making a critical difference during the battle of Waterloo when he caught the Napoleonic Imperial Guard emerging from hiding and was able to warn the Duke of Wellington.

James Mackintosh Fraser

Senator for: Western Australia, 1.7.38-19.3.51; 28.4.51-30.6.59 Party: Australian Labor Party Born/Died: 1890-27.8.1961

Professor Brian James Fraser

Achieved renowned in the study of Space Plasma Waves in the Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere; source determination of Pc1-2 geomagnetic pulsations using satellite and ground data Propagation of ion cyclotron waves in the magnetosphere using data from ISEE and CRRES satellites, and associated heavy ion effects Propagation studies of ULF waves at low latitudes. Conjugate and Antarctic studies of high latitude and cusp ULF wave phenomena.

Sir (Arthur) Ronald Fraser

British diplomat and author, served in Flanders and France during World War I. In 1917, having been wounded and rendered unfit for further military service, Fraser joined the British Civil Service's Department of Overseas Trade. By the early 1930s, Fraser had achieved a level of success in the Civil Service Minister (Commercial) to the British Embassy in Paris in September 1944. Resident Government Director, Suez Canal Company. Throughout his diplomatic career, Fraser wrote, publishing 31 works from 1924 until 1974, the year of his death. The LONDON TIMES commented on Fraser's "entertaining gift of fantasy" which at its best attained "a nice level of fantastic comedy." Fraser's earlier works are considered to be his best, particularly ROSE ANSTEY (1930), the most highly regarded among his works. Fraser accepted recognition for his service to his country beginning in 1930 with his induction into the Order of the British Empire (MBE), followed by the Companion of St. Michael and St. George (CMG) honor in 1934. Finally in 1949, Fraser received the Knights Commander Order of the British Empire (KBE).

Professor Mark Fraser

Author of many books and articles on Child Behaviour with a special focus on antisocial, aggressive behavior in childhood and early adolescence; youth violence; family-based services; skills training;research methods.

Elizabeth Fraser

Hollywood actress through the 1950s and 60s. Her most famous movie was "Two For The Seesaw".

Jill Fraser

Composer most noted for the background music of the feature film, "The Cutting Class" in 1988.

Brad Fraser

Author of Unidentified Human Remains, The True Nature of Love, Poor Superman and Martin Yesterday. His new play, Snake in Fridge, will open at Manchester, England's Royal Exchange Theatre in the fall of 2000.

Archibald William Fraser

Established in 1939 by A W Fraser in central Christchurch, Fraser's Foundry manufactured a wide range of bronze and aluminium sand castings using oil and coal fired furnaces. The business prospered and the company was soon moved to a larger factory, where Archibald, accompanied by his sons, Malcolm and Bruce, expanded into centrifugal and continuous casting using processes acquired during trips to Europe. The company was renamed A.W. Fraser & Sons, with a Head Office in Christchurch, New Zealand. Markets were increasing and the need for new plant and equipment saw the installation (in 1970) of a new horizontal continuous caster from Switzerland and the first of many electric furnaces. A.W. Fraser has maintained a policy of continued investment in technology, quality and the environment. In 1991 when the last of the Fraser brothers retired, McKechnies Plc. purchased the company to become known as A.W. Fraser - A Division of McKechnie Pacific.

Neil Fraser

Builder of the Fraser Automobile in New Zealand. The Frasers are a dramatic sportscar that come as self assembly kits for the enthusiast. They are very popular in Australia and Japan as well as in his home country.

James Fraser

Fraser Publishing is a subsidiary of Fraser Management, an investment counseling firm located in Burlington, Vermont. The publishing company began in 1968 in Wells, Vermont by James Fraser, a Chartered Financial Analyst and leader of the Contrary Opinion investment philosophy. Jim reads widely, writes his own financial newsletters and manages over $100 million in investment funds. He realized the importance and wisdom of the older out-of-print books on investment philosophy and began reprinting them in small quantities to distribute to his friends and colleagues. The demand grew enough to make it a business on its own and in 1969 both companies were moved to Burlington Vermont.

Comdr. Thomas E. Fraser

During 1940 and 1941, he briefly commanded, in turn destroyers Yarnall (DD-143), Claxton (DD-140), and Broome (DD-210). On 10 November 1941, he became commanding officer of the Walke (DD-416); and on 20 August 1942 he was appointed to temporary rank of commander. On the night of 14 and 15 November, Walke was a part of Rear Admiral Willis Augustus Lee's Task Force 64, when it encountered a large Japanese force off Savo Island attemting to bring reinforcements to Guadalcannal. Acting as the senior commander of the four destroyers of the task force, Comdr. Fraser boldly led them into action against the numerically superior Japanese force. The torpedoes and heavy gunfire of the Japanese vessels took a devastating toll of the American destroyers; and shortly after midnight, Comdr. Fraser gave the order to abandon Walke. He was lost in the ensuing action and was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his valor and devotion to duty. The Thomas E. Fraser (DM-24) was laid down as DD-736 on 31 January 1944 at Beth Maine, by the Beth Iron Works; named Thomas E. Fraser on 1 March 1944; launched on 10 June 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Thomas E. Fraser; reclassified as a destroyer minelayer and redesigned DM-24 on 20 July 1944; and commissioned on 22 August 1944, Comdr. Ronald Joseph Woodaman in command.

Ian Fraser

He is considered one of the leading playwrights and satirists in South Africa, and is certainly the most prolific writer that country's Theatre has ever had.

James Baillie Fraser

From the little town of Reelick in Inverness, James Fraser (1783-1856) eventually travelled into Persia (now named Iran) and the Himalayas, providing many exciting and valuable accounts of his journeys, undertaken between 1815 and 1834. On one diplomatic mission to Persia, Fraser journeyed some 2,600 miles on horseback from Constantinople (Istanbul) to Isfahan. Fraser's name can thus be added to the roll of those intrepid Scots "who came back alive" to make known the hitherto unknown.

Roxanne Fraser

Est-ce que publier un livre aussi politiquement "touched" que le fut mon bouquin sur la Baie James est suffisant pour faire partie des gens célèbres ? Plus d'information sur mes acomplissements... Je travaille dans le domaine de l'édition, à mon compte, et j'écris à contrat. Je signe parfois mes oeuvres (des articles, des brochures, des livres) ; mais la plupart du temps, je ne les signe pas. Cela me fait bien vivre, mais ne comporte rien de tellement éclatant ou de spectaculaire. Mais, à l'époque, en 1995, mon livre a fait beaucoup parler de lui dans les journaux, ainsi que le prix. Même Le Monde diplomatique en a annoncé la parution, mais après, plus rien, c'est sûr. D'autre part, mon intérêt pour mes origines écossaises vient de ma fréquentation des Cris de la Baie James - des Autochtones (trop long à expliquer ici). Ce qui m'a amenée à découvrir que le tant célèbre Simon Fraser, "le découvreur", qui a donné son nom à l'université du même nom, à Vancouver, est mon "cousin" de bien loin, mais mon cousin quand même. Je m'explique : il y a sept générations, mon aïeul, l'Écossais John Fraser, débarquait au Québec d'abord pour se battre, à la solde des Anglais, contre les Francais, puis pour rester. Il s'est beaucoup occupé de son neveu, le fameux Simon, qui a perdu son père lors d'une querre américaine.

Colin Fraser

Colin Fraser was employed by the Hudson Bay Company in 1827,at Assynt Scotland, hired as Piper to George Simpson Gov. of HBC, became a trader in Ruperts Land married Nancy Beaudry, A Red River Metis lady, they had 12 children, he died 1867 at lac St Anne in what is now Alberta, the many descendents of this union are living in Most Prairie Provinces and British Columbia.

Elizabeth Fraser

Elizabeth Fraser is the singer of the band "Cocteau Twins" and participated in the experiment-band "This Mortal Coil". She has a very deep voice, a bit nasal yet beautiful, very impressive. Check "Song to the siren" from This Mortal Coil LP "It'll end in tears".

Linda Fraser

BORN: 1964, Scotland. EDUCATION: Central St. Martins, Graphic Design and Printmaking EXHIBITIONS: Open Print, Mall Galleries; Design Centre, Islington, Towpath Gallery, Henley Festival, Mixed Shows ongoing at jelly Leg'd Chicken, Reading; Open Studios, Oxford Artweek, Women Artists Private View Gallery, Whitchurch. Currently lecturing at Berkshire School of Art and design. ARTIST`S STATEMENT: I love painting. I am always discovering new ways of making paintings and layering on colour and texture. Each new series of work I produce represents a fresh challenge in terms of scale or surface or palette. The freedom of painting is so refreshing and immediate to me after the restraints of years of training in design and printmaking. I'm not good in the water; I can't swim and I don't like sailing or fishing...I just love the shape of boats and the way they sit on the sea.

John Fraser

John Fraser of Newfield, was a well known Scottish nationalist in the early 19th Century and publisher of The True Scotsman. For his views, he was indicted for sedition by the English but aquitted. He then became a leading proponent of Scottish music and, with his two daughters and two sons, formed a musical entourage that toured Scotland, England and the United States performing the music of Scotland for a variety of audiences.

John Fraser (1721-1773)

John Fraser was born in 1721, probably in the highlands of Scotland, but possibly in this country to recently immigrated parents.In 1737 he lived in Paxtang township near the Susquehanna. As early as 1740 he established a trading station at weningo on the Allegheny river (present site of Franklin, Pa). This would have put him in the area when Celeron's French expedition came down the river in 1749 to bury lead plates and claim the Ohio basin for the French crown. Fraser was forced out of his post by Joncaire, a French officer, in 1753 and relocated to Turtle creek on the Monongahela. George Washington met with the French at Fraser's cabins after Fraser's departure, and then stayed at Fraser,s new post shortly thereafter. In1754 he was commissioned a leutenant in the Virginia Militia under Captain Trent. Fraser participated in General Braddock's failed expedition on Ft Duquesne in 1755, he was at Ft Necessity with Washington, and served with Henri Bouquet, who defeated the French and Indians at Bushy Run, and was Captain of the guides for General Forbes, who re-took the site of modern day Pittsburgh from the French. Fraser was an accomplished blacksmith and gunsmith and served in this role on many military expeditions. It is also rumored that he played the pipes and many a native american stood in awe of the skirling music he played in the wilderness. In 1754 or'55 he married Jean Bell at Winchester, Va. Jean was soon kidnapped by Indians and taken to Ohio. She escaped , and after several months made it back alone to Virginia. The Frasers subsequently had 8 children and settled in Bedford, Pa where they operated an Inn. John Fraser died in1773 at Bedford, Some of his sons served in the Revolution and one was killed in that struggle.

Captain Douglas Cowan Fraser

Born at St. John's Newfoundland Son of Dr. N.S. Fraser. Educated Bishop Field College, St. John's; Framlington College, Suffolk, England. While working in Montreal he received a private pilot licence and in 1930 a Canadian Commercial Pilot's licence. In 1930, a childhood friend, Arthur Sullivan, contacted him to see if he was interested in becoming involved in an aviation company that Sullivan wanted to start in Newfoundland. Douglas readily agreed to Sullivan's proposal and joined him in Toronto to fly Sullivan's newly purchased Gypsy Moth to Newfoundland. En route he was to teach Sullivan how to fly. The journey, which took only 21 hours 55 minutes of flying time, lasted fifteen days but their aircraft carried the first foreign airmail from Canada by flight into Newfoundland. In 1931 Fraser purchased a Curtis-Robin float plane and established his own aviation company, Old Colony Airways. Douglas soon began compiling an impressive list of firsts in Newfoundland aviation. On June 9th,1931 he provided the first shore-to-ship mail service when he airdropped newspapers to the S.S.Nova Scotia, 16 km (10 mi) off St. John's. On August 15,1931 he made the first recorded flight to Parsons Pond on the Great Northern Peninsula when he flew geologist G. Hopkins of Imperial Oil into the drilling site located there. From December 7, 1931 to July 10, 1932 Douglas was without his own plane and was forced to disband Old Colony Airways. On July 10, 1932 Fraser acquired his second aircraft, another Curtis-Robin. With this purchase, he began his second company, Fraser Airways. Over the next two years he made numerous mercy flights and flew airmail for the Newfoundland Government. On July 29 he flew Lt. John Aorisi to meet General Italo Balbo qv and his Italian Air Armada off Shoal Harbour. He also carried mail from Italy's Fascist premier, Mussolini, to Balbo. In 1934 Fraser sold his operation to the Newfoundland Commission of Government, which in turn leased it to Imperial Airways of London, England. Fraser was employed by Imperial Airways as a pilot and made the first official flight for that company in Newfoundland on November 3, 1934 in a Fox Moth. As an employee of Imperial Airways Fraser flew forest-fire patrols, timber surveys inspections of road and bridge construction, geodetic, geological and meteorological surveys and mercy missions to all parts of Newfoundland. In June 1935 he was part of a survey established by the Geodetic Survey of Canada to determine triangulation points. In August of that year he made the surveys which led to the establishment of Gander as the western terminus for the transatlantic air service. Imperial Airways transferred Fraser to London, England where, after completing training for blind flying in a Tiger Moth, he was made a co-pilot on the company's London-Paris route, flying a Handley Page 42. In January 1936 he was transferred to the London-Brussels route as co-pilot on a DeHaviland 86 Rapide; later he became co-pilot on the same type of aircraft on the London-Liverpool-Ireland-Scotland route.He returned to Newfoundland with the rank of Captain. In February 1936 Douglas went to Newfoundland in a Fairchild 71 float aircraft. He used that plane to collect meteorological data, to determine weather patterns. At altitudes of up to 25 760 m (16,000 ft), with no oxygen equipment, he flew every day that the weather allowed, with the meteorography equipment attached to the aircraft wing. The information he gathered in those flights was invaluable in the establishment of a transatlantic service. Using the same aircraft he determined the calibrations which led to the establishment of the wireless direction-finding stations at Botwood and Gander, also important in the establishment of the transatlantic service. On January 11, 1938,Capt. Fraser made the first official landing at the Newfoundland Airport at Gander. In late 1940 he flew survey missions for the United States Government, which led to the establishment of the American military bases at Argentia and Stephenville. On February 24, 1941 Fraser made a flight to northeastern Newfoundland where a Lockheed Hudson had crashed near Musgrave Harbour. On board the aircraft was Dr. Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin.Capt. Douglas found the crash site, but by that time Banting had died. Banting's briefcase, which contained top-secret information on the results of experiments designed to reduce pilot blackout during aerial combat. During World War II, in order to test the radar-defense system which had been installed at Torbay Airport,Capt Douglas flew low-altitude test flights over St. John's before he retired from flying In honour of his service to pioneer aviation in Newfoundland, Memorial University conferred an honorary Doctor of Laws degree upon Fraser at its Spring Convocation, on May 29, 1982. On the fifth of June 1987 Capt Douglas Cowan Fraser was entered in Canada's Aviation Hall Of Fame with the following Citation: "His exceptional flying abilities coupled with scientific interest in aviation have made him an honored member of Canada's flying fraternity and earned him a prominent place in Newfoundland History" In his native Newfoundland he was hailed by his colleauges as "THE BEST OF THE BEST"

Helen Charlotte Isabella Fraser (1879-1967)

Renowned botanist Helen Fraser was the elder daughter of the Honourable Arthur Hay David Fraser and Lucy Jane Fergusson. She was therefore a granddaughter of Alexander Fraser, 17th [now 18th] Lord Saltoun and a first cousin once removed of the present Lady Saltoun.Helen Fraser was educated at the Cheltenham Ladies College, progressing to King's College, London where she obtained a BSc in botany in 1904. She lectured at University College and Royal Holloway College and was awarded a DSc for her research on fungi in 1907. She took up a lectureship at the University College of Nottingham in 1907 before becoming head of the Department of Botany at Birkbeck College, London in 1909. In addition, she was co-founder, with Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson, of the University of London Suffrage Society (1907). Helen Fraser married the eminent palaeobotanist Professor David Thomas Gwynne-Vaughan in 1911. There were no children of the marriage.

When World War I broke out, Helen became a volunteer nurse (VAD). This work was halted when her husband became seriously ill. Professor Gwynne-Vaughan died in 1915 and his widow returned to her war-work. In 1917, Helen was appointed Joint Chief Controller of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in France. She was made a Companion of the British Empire in 1918. She was subsequently appointed Commandant of the Women's Royal Air Force. After the War, in 1919, she was appointed a Dame of the British Empire. Dame Helen became professor of botany at Birkbeck College in 1921. She became a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1929. In World War II, she served as Director of the Auxiliary Territorial Service from 1939 to 1941 when she returned to Birkbeck. Dame Helen was the author of many scientific studies, textbooks on fungi, and articles on education. A memoir, Service with the Army, was published in 1942.

Hugh Duncan Fraser

Hugh Duncan Fraser played professional football for the original NFL Chicago Cardinals - the first location of the now NFL Arizona Cardinals and before that the St. Louis Cardinals. He played on the weekends (late 1920's) for $ 100 per game of which he kept $50 to live on while he attended Chicago Art Institute - the remaining $ 50 was sent home to his younger brother Archie, so he could attend St. Mary's College in Calif. His father another Archie immigrated to Butte Montana from Antigonish, Nova Scotia in 1902.Hugh was hired by Walt Disney as an Animator in 1935 and stayed with Disney until 1953 then after a bit joined Hanna-Barbera (Flintstones etc.). He was awarded the Screen Cartoonists 50 Year Club in 1987. See IMDB.com for just some of his credits. In the Classic Disney Features his work may be individually seen as shown in Fantasia - Dance of the Hours - which depicts the Ballerina Ostrich, Hippos etc. with Ali Gator. He also worked on Dumbo which was directed by a relative, Jack Kinney.