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Hugh Fraser was born in Inverness-shire on August 7, 1808, the second, but eldest surviving, son of Hugh Fraser of Jamaica and Stoneyfield House, Inverness-shire and his wife Elizabeth Dunbar, daughter of John Dunbar, minister of Knockando, Moray.
He was educated at The Inverness Academy and at Addiscombe Military Seminary. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Bengal Engineers, Honourable East India Company Army, December 15, 1826 and was promoted to Lieutenant, September 28, 1827. He arrived in India on August 11, 1828.
Foreign the following years he served with the Department of Public Works undertaking land and road surveys as well as building projects including the European Artillery Hospital at Mhow, 1837-1838.
The Allahabad Trunk Road, 1840. And the iron bridge at Lucknow, 1843-1845.
He was promoted Captain, August 12, 1840. Fraser was appointed Garrison Engineer of Fort William and Civil Architect of the Bengal Presidency in August, 1847 and was promoted Major, October 7, 1851.
In March 1852, Fraser was appointed Commanding Engineer during the Second Anglo-Burmese War.
He distinguished himself at the attack on Rangoon, April 12, 1852. Foreign his services in Burma he was created a Companion of the Order of the Bath and promoted Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel. Fraser was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, 1 May 1855.
Brevet Colonel, April 15, 1857.
And Colonel September 8, 1857. In February 1856 he was appointed to officiate as Chief Engineer of the Punjab and in April 1857 Chief Engineer, North-Western Provinces at Agra.
From 30 September 1857 to 9 February 1858 he held the position of Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces with the title Chief Commissioner. Fraser died at Mussoorie, August 13, 1858 and is buried there.
He had four children, Hugh Fraser (1851–1920), Magistrate and Collector, Indian Civil Service.
Florence Fraser (1854–1884), artist. Charles Arthur Fraser (1857–1917), Colonial Secretary, Falkland Islands, Legislative Council Bahamas. Lennox Robertson Fraser (1858–1895), Executive Engineer, Public Works Department, Bengal.
