James Keith Fraser

Lieutenant-General James Keith Fraser (20 September 1832 – 30 July 1895) was a British Army officer.

Early life

Fraser was born on 20 September 1832. He was the third son of Lt.-Col. Sir James John Fraser, 3rd Baronet and the former Charlotte Anne Craufurd. He had two elder brothers, Sir William Fraser, 4th Baronet, an MP for Barnstaple, and Lt.-Gen. Sir Charles Craufurd Fraser, aide-de-camp to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Personal life On 10 June 1865, Fraser married Amelia Alice Julia Ward (d. 1929), a daughter of Hon. Humble Dudley Ward (a son of the 10th Baron Ward) and Eleanor Louisa Hawkes. Together, they were the parents of: who married George Rous, 3rd Earl of Stradbroke, a son of John Rous, 2nd Earl of Stradbroke and Augusta Bonham (widow of Col. Henry Frederick Bonham, and the daughter of the Rev. Sir Christopher Musgrave, 9th Bt.) in 1898. Capt. Hugh Craufurd Keith-Fraser (1869–1906), who married Dorothy Villiers, a daughter of Rt. Hon. Sir Francis Hyde Villiers (son of the 4th Earl of Clarendon) and Virginia Katharine Smith (daughter of Eric Carrington Smith), in 1919. His son later succeeded to his father's baronetcy in 1898.