Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H

FOWLER, Richard. b. London 28 Nov. 1765; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1793; L.C.P. London 1796; practised at Salisbury from 1796; phys. to Salisbury infirmary 1796–1841; F.R.S. 1 April 1802; purchased and endowed ground for Salisbury and South Wiltshire museum to which he gave a large part of his books and collections 1862; author of Some Observations on the mental state of the blind and deaf and dumb, Salisbury 1843, 2 ed. 1860; An attempt to detect the physiological process by which thinking is effected, Salisbury 1849, 2 ed. 1852. d. Milford near Salisbury 13 April 1863 having attained a greater age than had any other member of the Royal Coll. of Phys. from its foundation. Proc. of Royal Soc. xiii, pp. iii-v (1864); Munk’s Roll, 2 ed. vol. ii, p. 447.

FOX, Caroline (2 dau. of Robert Were Fox 1789–1877). b. Falmouth 24 May 1819; kept a journal from 1835 to 1871 which has rendered her celebrated; friend of John Sterling, John Stuart Mill and other eminent men. d. Penjerrick near Falmouth 12 Jany. 1871. Memories of old friends, extracts from journals of Caroline Fox 1835 to 1871, ed. by H. N. Pym 1881, portrait, 3 ed. 2 vols. 1882.

FOX, Sir Charles (youngest son of Francis Fox of Derby, physician). b. Derby 11 March 1810; assistant engineer on London and Birmingham railway 1830–35; a civil and consulting engineer in London 1857 to death; introduced the switch into railway practice 1838; erected with John Henderson the building for Great Exhibition in Hyde Park 1850–1; erected Crystal Palace, Sydenham 1852–54; carried out the East Kent and other railways; erected bridges over Thames at Barnes, Richmond, and Staines and many other large bridges; M.I.C.E. 13 Jany. 1838; knighted at Windsor Castle 23 Oct. 1851. d. Blackheath, Kent 14 June 1874. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix, 264–6 (1875); Graphic ix, 15, 17 (1874), portrait; Practical Mag. vi, 129–33, portrait.

FOX, Charles (7 son of Robert Were Fox of Falmouth). b. Falmouth 22 Dec. 1797; partner in firm of G. C. and R. W. Fox and Co. merchants, Falmouth; partner in Perran foundry co., manager 1824–47; one of founders of royal Cornwall polytechnic soc. 1833, pres. 1871–72; with Sir Charles Lemon introduced man engines into Cornish mines 1842; pres. of Miners’ Association of Cornwall and Devon 1861–63; pres. of royal geological soc. of Cornwall 1864–67. d. Trebah near Falmouth 18 April 1878. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 160–61, 1186; Joseph Foster’s Descendants of Francis Fox (1872) 11.

FOX, Charles Richard (natural son of 3 Baron Holland 1773–1840). b. 6 Nov. 1796; in the navy 1809–13; ensign Grenadier guards 1815, captain 1830 to 1836 when placed on h.p.; A.D.C. to the Sovereign 1832–1846; surveyor general of Ordnance 5 Dec. 1832 to 12 Jany. 1835; general 6 March 1863; col. of 57 foot 5 Sep. 1865 to death; M.P. for Calne, Wilts. 1831–32, for Tavistock 1832–34, for Stroud 1835, for Tower Hamlets 1841–47; had finest private collection of Greek coins in the world, purchased by Royal Museum at Berlin 1873. d. 1 Addison road, Kensington, London 13 April 1873. Numismatic Chronicle xiv, 16–19 (1874); Waagen’s Galleries of Art (1857) 232–4; I.L.N. lxii, 393, 451 (1873).

FOX, Ebenezer. b. England; chief reporter on the Manchester Guardian several years; went to Dunedin, New Zealand; on staff of Otago Daily Times 1862; confidential clerk and secretary to treasury New Zealand 1870 to death; wrote articles in New Zealand Times on denudation of the forests which attracted much attention. d. Wellington, Jany. 1886.

FOX, Edward. Author of Poetical Tentatives, By Lynn Erith 1854; Pleasure paths of travel 1857; Amian and Bertha and other poems 1858; drowned while bathing in the Avon at Keynsham, Somerset 9 Aug. 1862 aged 33.

FOX, Henry Hawes. b. Bristol 5 Jany. 1788; ed. at Glasgow and St. John’s coll. Cam.; pres. of royal medical society, Edin.; practised at Bristol 1811–32, phys. to infirmary there 1816–32; M.D. Cam. 1826; bought estate of Northwood, Gloucs. 1832 where he built an asylum for the insane; originated a method of fire proof construction now known as Fox and Barrett’s. d. Northwood 12 Oct. 1851.

FOX, Rev. John (son of Henry Fox of St. Bees, Cumberland). b. St. Bees; ed. at St. Bees; matric. from Queen’s coll. Ox. 4 Dec. 1794 aged 20, tabarder 1798, fellow 1808–27; B.A. 1798, M.A. 1812, B.D. 1827, D.D. 1827; master of Northleach sch. 1826–27; provost of Queen’s coll. Ox. 1827 to death. d. Oxford 11 Aug. 1855. bur. Sherborne.

FOX, Richard Maxwell. b. Raheny Glebe, co. Dublin 1816; M.P. for co. Longford 13 Aug. 1847 to death. d. St. Leonard’s on Sea 26 April 1856.

FOX, Robert Were (brother of Charles Fox 1797–1878). b. Falmouth 26 April 1789; made researches upon internal temperature of the earth from 1815, the first to prove that the heat increased with the depth; a founder of Royal Polytechnic Soc. 1833; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; contributed 52 papers to scientific periodicals. d. Penjerrick near Falmouth 25 July 1877. A catalogue of the works of R. W. Fox with A sketch of his life, By J. H. Collins, Truro 1878; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 162–5 (1874), iii, 1188 (1882).

FOX, Sackville Walter Lane. b. 1800; M.P. for Helston 1831–34, for Beverley 1840–41 and 1847–52, for Ipswich 1842–47. d. 22 Pall Mall, London 18 Aug. 1874.

FOX, Samuel. b. Bradwell, North Derbyshire 1815; a steel maker at Stockbridge near Sheffield; patented Fox’s paragon frame for umbrellas 6 April 1852 by which he made a fortune; established large works at Lille, France; chairman of Samuel Fox and Co., Stockbridge works, Deepcar near Sheffield to death. d. The Lodge, North Cliffe near Market Weighton, Yorkshire 25 Feb. 1887.

FOX, Sarah Hustler (only dau. of Wm. Hustler of Apple hall, Bradford, Yorkshire). b. Apple hall 8 Aug. 1800. (m. 20 Dec. 1825 Charles Fox 1797–1878.) Author of A metrical version of the book of Job 1852–4; Poems original and translated 1863; Catch who can, or hide and seek, original double acrostics 1869. d. Trebah near Falmouth 19 Feb. 1882.

FOX, Rev. William Johnson. b. Uggeshall farm near Wrentham, Suffolk 1 March 1786; Independent minister at Fareham 1810; Unitarian minister at Chichester 1812–17; minister of Parliament court chapel, London 1817, of a chapel built for him in South place, Finsbury 1824–52; edited the Monthly Repository 1833 to 1836; a leading orator of the Anti-Corn-law League; M.P. for Oldham 1847–52, 1852–57 and 1857–62; contested Oldham 1852 and 1857; author of Lectures to the working classes 4 vols. 1845–49 and 30 other books. d. 3 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 3 June 1864. Memorial edition of collected works of W. J. Fox, vol. 12 (1868); John Evans’s Lancashire authors (1850) 92–96; People’s Journal iii, 69 (1848), portrait; I.L.N. xii, 298 (1848), portrait.

FOX, William Tilbury (son of Luther Owen Fox, M.D. of Broughton, Winchester). b. 1836; ed. at Univ. coll. London; M.B. London 1857, M.D. 1858; phys. accoucheur to Farringdon General Dispensary; a specialist on dermatology; phys. to skin departments of Charing Cross and University college hospitals; one of editors of the Lancet; author of Skin diseases, their description, pathology, diagnosis and treatment 1864, 3 ed. 1873; Atlas of skin diseases 1875–7 and 12 other books. d. Paris 7 June 1879. bur. Willesden cemetery 14 June.

FOX, Wilson. b. Wellington, Somerset 2 Nov. 1831; B.A. London 1850, M.B. 1854, M.D. 1855; phys. at Newcastle-under-Lyme 1859–61; professor of pathological anatomy at Univ. coll. London 1861; assistant phys. Univ. coll. hospital 1862, phys. 1867; F.R.C.P. 1866; Holme professor of clinical medicine Univ. coll. hospital 1867; phys. extraord. to the Queen 16 Aug. 1869, phys. in ordinary 18 Dec. 1882 to death; F.R.S. 6 June 1872; author of On the diagnosis and treatment of the varieties of Dyspepsia 1867, 3 ed. under the title of The diseases of the stomach 1872, and other books. d. Preston, Lancs. 3 May 1887. bur. Taunton 6 May, bust in shire hall, Taunton unveiled 25 Oct. 1888.

FRADELLE, Henry Joseph. b. Lille, France 1778; historical painter in London from 1816; exhibited 11 pictures at R.A., 36 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1817–54. d. 36 Weymouth st. Portland place, London 14 March 1865.

FRAIL, John Frederick. b. Shrewsbury 1 May 1804; hairdresser Shrewsbury; a local actor; electioneering agent to the Carlton club in Shropshire; clerk of the course, Shrewsbury 1843; organised many race meetings; entertained at dinner and presented with plate worth £350, 1854; town councillor 1854, mayor. d. Shrewsbury 9 March 1879. Sporting Review xxxix, 361–3 (1858); Sporting Times 24 July 1875 p. 396, portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news vi, 403, 419 (1877), portrait, x, 620, 627 (1879), portrait.

FRANCATELLI, Charles Elmé. b. London 1805; studied cookery under Carème; chef to Earl of Chesterfield, Earl of Dudley, Lord Kinnaird and Rowland Errington successively; managed St. James’s club, London; chief cook and maitre d’hotel to the Queen 1840–42; lessee of Coventry House club; chef at the Reform club 1854–61; managed St. James’s hotel, Berkeley st. Piccadilly 1863–70, and Freemason’s tavern, Great Queen st. 1870–76; author of The modern cook 1846, 12 ed. 1865 and other books. d. Eastbourne 10 Aug. 1876. A. Hayward’s Art of dining, new ed. (1883) 75–6.

FRANCE, Ven. Francis. Educ. at Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843, B.D. 1850; fellow tutor and pres. of his college; archdeacon of Ely, Dec. 1859 to death; author of The example of Christ 1861. d. Cambridge 14 April 1864.

FRANCILLON, James (6 son of Francis Francillon of Harwich, Essex). b. 21 Nov. 1802; admitted attorney; conveyancing clerk to Messrs. Wilton at Gloucester 1824; barrister G.I. 20 Nov. 1833; judge of county courts, circuit 54 (Gloucestershire), March 1847 to death; author of Lectures elementary and familiar on English law 2 series 1860–1. d. of cholera at Lausanne 3 Sep. 1866.

FRANCIS, Francis (son of Captain Morgan, R.N.) b. Seton, Devon 1822; changed his name from Morgan to Francis 1843; angling editor of The Field 25 years; established the Thames Rights defence association; suggested plan of the National fish-culture association; a member of the commission on oyster culture 1868–70; author of Pickackifax, a novel in rhyme 1854; Newton Dogvane, a novel 3 vols. 1859 and 14 other books. d. The Firs, Twickenham 24 Dec. 1886. F. Francis’s A Book on Angling, 6 ed. (1887), portrait; The Field 1 Jany. 1887 p. 9, cols. 1–3.

FRANCIS, George (2 son of George Francis of Maidstone, Kent). b. 20 Aug. 1824; barrister G.I. 16 Jany. 1850, bencher 26 May 1880, treasurer 1886; recorder of Faversham, March 1864 to Nov. 1872; recorder of Canterbury, Nov. 1872 to Aug. 1883; master in Q.B. division, July 1878, master of supreme court of judicature 1879 to death. d. 12 Carlton hill, Maida vale, London 20 Jany. 1890.

FRANCIS, George Grant (eld. son of John Francis of Swansea). b. Swansea, Jany. 1814; mayor of Swansea 1853–4; col. of 1st Glamorgan artillery volunteers raised by his exertions 1859; author of The free grammar school Swansea, Swansea 1849; The smelting of copper in the Swansea district, privately printed Swansea 1867, published 1881, and other books on Welsh history and topography. d. 9 Upper Phillimore place, Kensington, London 21 April 1882. bur. Swansea cemetery 26 April. Athenæum 28 April 1882 pp. 510–11.

FRANCIS, George Henry. b. about 1817; edited Morning Post, Atlas, Dublin Daily Express; manager and assistant editor of the Press; edited Morning Chronicle; author of Orators of the age 1847 and other books. d. Paris 28 Aug. 1866.

FRANCIS, George William. b. London 1800; edited Magazine of science and school of arts 5 vols. 1840–5; went to Australia 1849; director of Adelaide botanic garden to death; author of Catalogue of British plants and ferns 1835, 5 ed. 1840; An analysis of British ferns 1837, 5 ed. 1855; Electrical experiments 8 ed. 1855 and 8 other books. d. Adelaide 9 Aug. 1865.

FRANCIS, James Goodall. b. London 1819; went to Van Diemen’s Land 1834; partner with Mr. Macpherson in a business at Hobart Town 1847; managed a branch business in Melbourne 1853; vice pres. of chamber of commerce N.S.W. 1856, pres. 1857; member for Richmond in Victorian legislative assembly 1859–74; comr. of trade and customs 1863–68; treasurer of Victoria 1870–71; prime minister 1872–74; passed a free education act 1874; member for Warrnambool in Victorian assembly 1878–82. d. Queenscliff, Victoria 25 Jany. 1884.

FRANCIS, John. b. Lincolnshire 3 Sep. 1780; pupil of Francis Chantrey in London; executed by command of the Queen a bust in marble of Prince Albert 1844; exhibited 71 sculptures at the R.A. 1820–57. d. 56 Albany st. Regent’s park, London 30 Aug. 1861.

FRANCIS, John. b. Bermondsey, London 18 July 1811; junior clerk in office of the Athenæum, Sep. 1831, business manager and publisher of that paper 4 Oct. 1831 to death; did more than any man to procure repeal of duty on newspaper advertisements 1853, of stamp duty on newspapers 1855 and of the paper duty 1861. d. 20 Wellington st. Strand, London 6 April 1882. John Francis, publisher of the Athenæum, By J. C. Francis (1888) i, 1–19, 45–7, 226, ii, 173 et seq. 545–50, portrait; H. J. Nicoll’s Great Movements (1881) 269–339.

FRANCIS, Sir Philip. b. 1822; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; judge of supreme consular court of the Levant and consul general at Constantinople 16 Sep. 1867 to death; knighted by patent 7 Dec. 1868; author of The law of Charities 1854; The new common law procedure acts 1854. d. on board H.M.S. Antelope between Besika and Smyrna 9 Aug. 1876. Graphic xiv, 257, 261 (1876), portrait.

FRANCKLYN, John Henry. b. 8 Jany. 1812; 2 lieut. R.A. 26 July 1831, col. commandant 20 Dec. 1878 to death; general 13 Nov. 1880; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. The Wigwam, Dacres road, Forest hill 12 Feb. 1881.

FRANKLAND, Charles Colville (3 son of Rev. Roger Frankland, R. of Yarlington, Somerset, who d. 25 March 1826). b. Bath 10 Feb. 1797; entered navy 13 Jany. 1813, captain 23 Nov. 1841; retired admiral 30 July 1875; published Travels to and from Constantinople 2 vols. 1829; Narrative of a visit to the courts of Russia and Sweden 2 vols. 1832. d. 2 Royal crescent, Bath 13 April 1876.

FRANKLIN, Lady Jane (2 dau. of John Griffin of Bedford place, London). b. 1792; travelled in the East, Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand 1828–44; the first lady who travelled overland from Melbourne to Sydney; sent out at her own expense to the Arctic regions 5 ships in search of her husband Sir John Franklin 1850–57; received gold medal of Royal Geog. Soc. 1860. (m. at Great Stanmore 5 Nov. 1828 John Franklin, captain R.N. who d. Victory point, King William Land 11 June 1847, his name is in the navy list down to April 1854); author of A letter to Viscount Palmerston 1857, 2 editions. She d. 45 Phillimore gardens, London 18 July 1875. Graphic xi, 157, 163 (1875), portrait.

FRANKLYN, George Woodroffe. b. Bristol 1800; a merchant at Bristol; mayor of Bristol 1842–43; M.P. for Poole 1852–65. d. Lovel hill, Winkfield, Berks. 5 Nov. 1870.

FRANKS, Sir John (2 son of Thomas Franks of Ballymagooly, co. Cork 1729–87). b. Loher Cannon near Tralee, co. Kerry 1769; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1788, M.A. 1791; called to Irish bar 1792; K.C. 25 Nov. 1822; one of judges of supreme court, Calcutta 1825–1834 when he resigned; knighted at Carlton house 20 April 1825; resided at Roebuck near Dublin 1835 to death; bencher of King’s Inns, Dublin 1840. d. St. Bridgets, Clonkeagh, co. Dublin 11 Jany. 1852.

FRANKS, Sir Thomas Harte (2 son of Wm. Franks of Carrig castle near Mallow, co. Cork). Ensign 10 foot 7 July 1825, lieut. col. 28 March 1845 to 20 July 1858; commanded 4th infantry division during Indian mutiny 1858; M.G. 20 July 1858; C.B. 27 June 1846, K.C.B. 27 July 1858. d. Ibstone house, Tetsworth, Oxon. 5 Feb. 1862.

FRASER, Alexander. b. Edinburgh 7 April 1786; painter in Edin. to 1813, in London 1813–59; painted the details and still life in David Wilkie’s pictures for about 20 years; A.R.S.A. 1840; exhibited 32 pictures at R.A., 97 at B.I. and 37 at Suffolk st. gallery 1810–59. d. Wood Green, Middlesex 15 Feb. 1865.

FRASER, Hastings. Ensign 74 foot 9 April 1788; lieut. col. 86 foot 18 April 1805 to 31 Aug. 1826; col. 83 foot 30 Sep. 1835, col. 61 foot 1 Sep. 1848 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815. d. Bury st. St. James’s, London 29 Sep. 1852 aged 81.

FRASER, Sir Hugh (son of Wm. Fraser, commissary of Inverness). Entered military service of H.E.I. Co. 1790; col. of 5 Madras N.I. 1 May 1834 to death; L.G. 23 Nov. 1841; K.C.B. 7 April 1832 for commanding troops at assault of Copaul Droog. d. Braclangwell, co. Cromarty 6 Oct. 1851 aged 78.

FRASER, Right Rev. James (eld. son of James Fraser of Prestbury, Gloucs.) b. Prestbury 18 Aug. 1818; ed. at Bridgnorth and Shrewsbury; scholar of Lincoln coll. Ox. 1836; Ireland scholar 1839; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1842; fellow of Oriel coll. 1840–60, tutor 1842–47, sub-dean and librarian 1844; R. of Cholderton, Wiltshire 1847–60; select preacher at Oxford 1851, 1861, 1871, 1877 and 1885; R. of Ufton Nervet, Berkshire 1860–70; preb. of Salisbury 1861–70; bishop of Manchester 18 Jany. 1870 to death, consecrated at Manchester cathedral 25 March 1870. d. Bishop’s Court, Higher Broughton, Manchester 22 Oct. 1885. bur. at Ufton Nervet. Memoir of James Fraser. By Thomas Hughes, Q.C. 1887, portrait; J. W. Diggle’s The Lancashire life of Bishop Fraser 1889, portrait; Dublin univ. mag. xcv, 452–64 (1880), portrait; Church portrait gallery i, 47 (1880), portrait; Our Bishops and Deans. By Rev. F. Arnold ii, 119–30 (1875); Rev. C. M. Davies’s Orthodox London 2 series (1874) 94–107, 393.

FRASER, James Baillie (eld. son of Edward Satchell Fraser of Reelick, Invernessshire). b. Reelick 11 June 1783; travelled in the Himalayas 1815, in Persia 1821–2; took charge of the Persian princes when they visited England 1835–6; author of Narrative of the Persian princes in London 2 vols. 1838; Travels in Koordistan, Mesopotamia, &c. 2 vols. 1840; The dark falcon, a tale of the Attruck 4 vols. 1844 and 14 other books. d. Reelick 24 Jany. 1856. G.M. xlv, 307–8 (1856).

FRASER, James Stuart (youngest son of Charles Fraser, col. Madras army, who d. 5 May 1795). b. Edinburgh 1 July 1783; lieut. 18 Madras N.I. 15 Dec. 1800; commandant at Pondicherry 1816–28; col. 36 Madras N.I. 26 Sep. 1835 to death; resident at Hyderabad 31 Dec. 1839 to 1852; general 2 June 1860. d. Twickenham park, Twickenham 22 Aug. 1869. H. Fraser’s Memoir of J. S. Fraser (1885), portrait.

FRASER, Sir John (3 son of Wm. Mackenzie Fraser, M.D. of Balnairn). b. Bath 1792; ed. at Eton; aide-de-camp and Persian interpreter to commander-in-chief in India; retired from army 1827; sec. to lord high comr. of Ionian Islands to 1854; K.C.M.G. 1853. d. Bath 26 Dec. 1864.

FRASER, John Farquhar. Barrister L.I. 13 May 1817; judge of county courts, circuit 46 (Surrey), March 1847 to death; author of The reports of Sir E. Coke in 13 parts, 10 parts by J. F. F. 1826; resided at 104 Eaton place, Belgrave sq. London. d. Feb. 1865.

FRASER, Patrick, Lord Fraser (son of Patrick Fraser of Perth, merchant). b. Pitlochry near Perth 1819; ed. at Perth gr. sch. and univ. of St. Andrews; called to the bar 1843; sheriff of Renfrewshire 3 Feb. 1862; LLD. Edin. 1871; dean of Faculty of Advocates 16 Jany. 1878; Q.C. 1880; a lord of session with title of Lord Fraser 4 Feb. 1881 to death; lord ordinary in exchequer cases 15 Nov. 1881 to death; author of A treatise on the law of Scotland as applicable to the personal and domestic relations 2 vols. Edin. 1846; The conflict of laws in cases of divorce, Edin. 1860 and 5 other books; found dead in his study chair at Gattonside near Melrose 27 March 1889. Juridical Review i, 178–83 (1889), portrait.

FRASER, Robert Samuel. b. North Shields 26 Oct. 1829; apprentice to William Clark, engineer, Sunderland 1843; manager of the s.s. Chasseur floating factory in Balaclava harbour 1855–56 for the government; assistant to inspector of machinery in the Arsenal, Woolwich 1856; manager of royal gun factories, Woolwich 1859, deputy assist. superintendent 1866; invented the service gun known as the Fraser 1867 but since called the Woolwich gun and still in use; presented by government on two occasions with £5000 each time; changed spelling of his name from Frazer to Fraser 1866; M.I.C.E. 6 Dec. 1864. d. of consumption Arbory cottage, Sydenham road, Croydon 12 July 1884. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxviii, 424–9 (1884).

FRASER, Rev. Robert William (son of captain Robert Fraser). b. Perth 1810; licensed to preach by Edinburgh presbytery 1840; minister of parish of Burntisland 1843–7; minister of St. John’s ch. Edin. 1847 to death; author of Moriah, or sketches of the sacred rites of ancient Israel, Edinburgh 1849 and many other books. d. 19 Lauriston st. Edinburgh 10 Sep. 1876. Scotsman 12 Sep. 1876 p. 4.

FRASER, Thomas. Took a leading part in Parisian political life which he described in racy articles, sent to the Morning Chronicle 1835–55; sec. to Hudson Bay Co. London 1855. d. Florence 2 Nov. 1869. Newspaper Press 1 Dec. 1869 p. 15.

FRASER, Thomas (son of vice admiral Alexander Fraser, who d. 29 Dec. 1829). b. May 1796; entered navy 11 Nov. 1811; commander 22 July 1826; captain on h.p. 23 Nov. 1841; V.A. on h.p. 1870. d. 19 Brighton place, Portobello 28 Oct. 1870. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882), p. 139, portrait.

FRASER, Most Rev. William. b. Scotland about 1790; R.C. vicar apostolic of Nova Scotia with title of bishop of Fanes 1821; devoted himself to Scottish members of his flock in Antigonish, northern part of the peninsula and neglected the Irish; the Pope divided province of Nova Scotia into two dioceses, Antigonish being united to Cape Breton and erected into diocese of Arishat with W. Fraser as titular bishop. d. Antigonish 4 Oct. 1857.

FRASER, Rev. William (eld. son of Wm. Fraser of St. George’s, Southwark, London). Matric. from Worcester coll. Ox. 9 June 1841 aged 17; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848, B.C.L. 1848, D.C.L. 1861; C. of Alton, Staffs. 1853–58, V. 1858 to death; P.C. of Cotton, Staffs. 1862 to death; author of Parish Sermons 2 series 1855–60; A plain commentary of the Book of Psalms, chiefly founded on the Fathers 2 vols. 1857 and other books. d. Alton vicarage 26 Nov. 1877.

FRASER, Rev. William. b. Cullen, Banffshire 1817; a master in Normal seminary, Glasgow; pastor of the Free Middle congregation, Paisley 1849 to death; LLD. Glasgow 1872; member of Paisley school board; author of The state of our educational enterprises 1858; Blending lights, or the relations of natural science, archæology and history to the Bible 1873. d. Free Middle manse, Paisley 21 Sep. 1879. Renfrewshire Independent 27 Sep. 1879 p. 4.