The Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, PC 1945-2013

[Michael Rhodes]

_.The Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, Lord Advocate of Scotland 1989-92, died 22 June, 2013, aged 68. Peter Lovat Fraser was b 29 May, 1945, a  son of the Rev George Robson Fraser.

He was Conservative MP for Angus South 1979-83, and Angus East 1983-7, was PPS to the Sec of State for Scotland 1981-82,  was Solicitor-General for Scotland, 1982-89, then Lord Advocate and a Minister of State, Scottish Office. Created a life peer in 1989, as Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, of Carmyllie in the District of Angus. 

He married in 1969, Fiona, dau of Hugh Murray Mair, of Lanark, and had issue.

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[Michael Rhodes]

Obituaries of Lord Fraser of Carmyllie:-

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jun/24/lord-fraser-of-carmyllie

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/10137489/Tributes-paid-after-Lord-Fraser-of-Carmyllie-dies-suddenly.html

http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/politics/lord-fraser-of-carmyllie-dies-aged-68-1-2973982

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[Turenne]

Apparently, Lord Fraser was a scion of the lords Lovat, but I can't seem to find the connection. His grandfather was the Very Reverend Donald Fraser; after that I got a bit er...stuck.

RL

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[Richard R]

Thanks Richard. When you say 'apparently' where has that come from? Who is saying he's descended from the the lords Lovat?

[Turenne]

On Sunday, June 30, 2013 8:09:43 AM UTC+1, Richard R wrote:

Thanks Richard. When you say 'apparently' where has that come from? Who is saying he's descended from the the lords Lovat?

I had an awful feeling someone would ask me that! This from the 'Herald of Scotland' (a similar article appeared in The Telegraph):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10142006/Lord-Fraser-of-Carmyllie.html

" Descended from the chiefs of the Fraser clan, Peter Lovat Fraser was born in Luanshya, Zambia, on May 29, 1945, three weeks after the end of the war in Europe in which many of his clansmen and his father's relatives had fought, including the legendary D-Day commando leader Lord Lovat (Simon Fraser). His father, the Rev George Robson Fraser, from Morningside, Edinburgh, was in Zambia as a Church of Scotland minister and missionary along with his wife Helen (née Meiklejohn)".

Sorry; I know that unsupported info is pretty unacceptable - hence the word 'apparently'.

Cheers

RL