Background
FRASER, Robert was born on August 10, 1858 in Wardhouse, parish of Kennethmont, Aberdeenshire. Son of late Robert Fraser and Jane Gordon.
FRASER, Robert was born on August 10, 1858 in Wardhouse, parish of Kennethmont, Aberdeenshire. Son of late Robert Fraser and Jane Gordon.
Studied at Blairs College, Aberdeen. English College, Douai. Scots College, Rome.
Doctor of Laws.
Born in Kennethmont, Aberdeenshire, Scotland on 10 August 1858, he was ordained to the priesthood on 13 August 1882. He was appointed the Bishop of the Diocese of Dunkeld by the Holy See on 14 May 1913, and consecrated to the Episcopate on 25 May 1913. The principal consecrator was Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val y Zulueta, and the principal co-consecrators were Archbishop Thomas Francis Kennedy, Rector of the Pontifical North American College and Donald Aloysius Mackintosh, Coadjutor Archbishop of Glasgow.
He died in office on 28 March 1914, aged 55.