John Simon Frederick Fraser
Lieutenant-Colonel John Simon Frederick Fraser, also referred to as Simon Fraser, the younger of Lovat, commanded the Fraser Fencibles in Ireland and was Member of Parliament for Inverness-shire from 1796 to 1802.Biography
Simon Fraser was the eldest son of Archibald Fraser 20th MacShimidh and Jane, daughter of William Fraser. He matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford on 4 July 1786 and entered Lincoln's Inn in 1789 and the Inner Temple in 1793.
He was Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fraser Fencibles, and saw service in Ireland during the Irish rebellion of 1798. This regiment was raised in 1794 by James Fraser of Balladrum. It disbanded in 1802.
Fraser was a Member of Parliament for Inverness-shire from 1796 to 1802, and died before his father, unmarried, in Lisbon on 6 April 1803. He had an illegitimate son.
