Lieutenant-Colonel Sir James John Fraser, 3rd Baronet (1789 – 5 June 1834) was a lieutenant-colonel in the British Army (1828).

Early life

Fraser, who was born in 1789, was the second son of Sir William Fraser, 1st Baronet, F.R.S., and Elizabeth Farquharson (a daughter of merchant James Farquharson, of London). He was descended from Alexander Fraser, second son of Hugh Fraser, 1st Lord Lovat.

Career

On the death of his brother Sir William Fraser, 2nd Baronet, on 23 December 1827, he succeeded to the baronetcy which had been created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom for his father in 1806. Fraser served with the 7th Hussars in Spain during the Peninsular War, and was on the staff of the Duke of Wellington during the Waterloo Campaign.

Personal life

Fraser was married to Charlotte Anne Craufurd (d. 1867), a daughter of Daniel Craufurd (a son of Sir Alexander Craufurd, 1st Baronet) and Bridget Holland (a daughter of Henry Holland). Together, they were the parents of: He died on 5 June 1834, at his seat, Uddens House, Dorsetshire, after a short illness, aged 45, leaving a widow and three sons. There are memorial inscriptions to Fraser in All Saints' Church, Langton Long Blandford, at Wimborne Minster, Dorset and on the family memorial tablet in Boleskine Old Churchyard, Drumtemple, Invernesshire. After his death, his widow married Sir Ralph Howard, 1st Baronet, in July 1837.

Descendants

Through his youngest son James, he was a grandfather of Helena Violet Alice Fraser (who married George Rous, 3rd Earl of Stradbroke), Sir Keith Fraser, 5th Baronet (who married Lady Dorothy Coventry, a daughter of the 9th Earl of Coventry), and Capt. Hugh Craufurd Keith-Fraser (who married Dorothy Villiers, a daughter of Rt. Hon. Sir Francis Hyde Villiers).