Alexander Fraser

Alexander Fraser (2 January 1802 – 20 August 1888) was an Australian businessman and politician in colonial Victoria, a member of the Victorian Legislative Council.

Fraser was born in Aldourie, Inverness-shire, Scotland, eldest of the ten children of John Fraser, a farmer and Free Church elder, and his wife Ann, née Fraser. The ship, however, put in at Hobart, Tasmania (then called Van Diemen's Land), and he decided to stay there, which he did until 1852, when he visited Victoria and decided to settle there. representing the Government in the Council (Upper House). He was principally known as the plaintiff in an action which he brought against The Age (Melbourne) in 1878 for damages for a libel contained in an article reflecting on his conduct towards a deceased brother who had died in England in indigent circumstances. He recovered £250. Fraser died in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia on 20 August 1888.