The Dictionary of national biography Volume 7 Stephen

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...and used his influence and vote in furtherance of the Darien scheme, and in opposition to the treaty of union with England. He died on 18 March 1715, his wife, by whom he left three sons and four daughters, surviving till 1784. The eldest son, Alexander (1684-1748), succeeded astwelfthlord, and his great-grandson, Alexander George Fraser q. v., sixteenth lord Saltoun, was the famous general. Lord Saltoun"s The Frasers of Philorth; Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, ix. 347, 350. H. P. FRASER, WILLIAM (1781P-1835), Indian civilian, youngest son of Edward Satchell Fraser of Reelick, Inverness-shire, arrived in India to take up a nomination to the Bengal civil service in 1799. Afteracting iu subordinate capacities, he was appointed secretary to Sir David Ochterlouy, then resident at Delhi, in 1805, and in 1811 he accompanied Mountstuart Elphinstone"s expedition to Cabul as secretary. In 1813 he was promoted to be assistant to Mr. Seton, the resident at Delhi, and in 1815 was political agent to General Martindale"s army, and subsequently travelled with his brother, James BaillieFraser q. v.,in the Himalayas. In 1819 he was sent to settle the hill state of Garhwal, which had just been freed from the Goorkhas. In 1826 he was appointed second member of the board of revenue of the north-western provinces, and in 1830 he was promoted resident and agent to the governor-general at Delhi, in succession to Sir T. F. Colebrooke. He held this appointment until the evening of 22 March 1835, when he happened to be riding along the j unction of the roads leading from the Cashmere and Lahore gates of Delhi, attended only by a single sowar, and was suddenly shot dead by a Muhammadan, named Kureem Khan. The actual perpetrator of the deed was tried and hanged, and earnest effo... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Dictionary of national biography Volume 7 (Stephen)