Born in
Kennethmont,
Aberdeenshire, Scotland on 10 August 1858, he was educated at the junior seminary
St Mary's College, Blairs, St. Edmund's in Douai, and the
Scots College, Rome. He was
ordained to the
priesthood on 13 August 1882. He served as a professor at Blairs from 1883 to 1897, when he was appointed rector of the Scots College, a post he held until 1913. Fraser wrote the article on the "Scots College" for the
Catholic Encyclopedia. Fraser was made a
domestic prelate in 1898, and a
Protonotary apostolic in 1904. 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. ==References==