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 Death Announcements 1845-1854
| Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Fraser | | | First names | Hugh | | | Rank / occupation | Lieut.-Gen. & Sir |  | Unit | Madras Army | | | Death date | 6 Oct 1851 | | | Place of death | Scotland  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | Jan 1852 | | | Page number | 92 | | | Detail | At Braelangwell, co. Cromarty, aged 78, Lieut.-General Sir Hugh Fraser, K.C.B. Colonel of the 5th Madras Native Infantry, a Deputy Lieutenant of co. Cromarty. He was the son of William Fraser, esq. commissary of Inverness, by Miss Fraser, of Erogy, the niece of General Simon Fraser, who was killed at Saratoga in North America. He entered the military service of the East India Company in 1790, became a Captain in 1801, a Colonel in 1819, Colonel of his regiment in 1824, and attained the rank of Lieut.-General in Nov. 1841. He received the order of the Bath in 1832, in consequence of having commanded the troops at the assault of Copaul Droog. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the co. Cromarty in 1842. Sir Hugh Fraser was twice married; first, in 1811, to Helen de la Sauvage; and secondly, in 1827, to the third daughter of of John Mackenzie, of Kincraig. |
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