Simon Fraser, 13th Lord Lovat

Lovat was the eldest of four sons and three daughters born to Thomas Alexander Fraser, 12th Lord Lovat and Hon. Charlotte Georgina Stafford-Jerningham, daughter of George William Stafford-Jerningham, 8th Baron Stafford. Frances Giorgiana Fraser (wife of Sir Pyers Mostyn, 8th Baronet), Charlotte Henrietta Fraser (wife of Sir Matthew Sausse, the Chief Justice of Bombay), Alexander Edward Fraser (a Lt.-Col. in the Scots Guards who fought in the Crimean War and married Georgiana Mary Heneage, only daughter of George Fieschi Heneage of Hainton Hall) George Edward Stafford Fraser (who died unmarried), ==Career==

He succeeded his father in 1875, who had been awarded another barony, that of Baron Lovat, in the peerage of Great Britain. Lovat resided at Beaufort Castle, and was the 22nd Chief MacShimidh of the Clan Fraser of Lovat. He served as a Lieutenant colonel of the 2nd Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders Militia, and Lord Lieutenant of Inverness between 1873 and 1887. From 1883 to 1887, he served as aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria. ==Marriage and issue==

In 1866, Fraser married Alice Maria Weld-Blundell, the fifth daughter of Thomas Weld-Blundell and his wife, Teresa Maria Eleanora Vaughan. They had 11 children: • Simon Thomas Joseph Fraser (16 August 1867 – 28 September 1868), who died young. • Maj. Hon. Alastair Thomas Joseph Fraser (1 August 1877 – 14 October 1949), who married Lady Sybil Grimston, daughter of James Grimston, 3rd Earl of Verulam. • Hon. Margaret Mary Catherine Fraser OBE (25 June 1881 – 4 August 1972), who married Brig.-Gen. Archibald Stirling, son of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet, and had issue. He was succeeded by his son Simon, who became the 14th Lord Lovat. Lady Lovat survived her husband by over fifty years and died in 1938, aged 92. ==Descendants==

Through his daughter Mary, he was a grandfather of John Scott, 4th Earl of Eldon. Through his daughter Alice, he was a grandfather of World War I flying ace Gerald Maxwell. Through his daughter Margaret, he was a grandfather of Special Air Service co-founder Sir David Stirling. ==References==