Fraser baronets of Ledeclune (1806)

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Portrait of Sir William Fraser, 1st Baronet of Ledeclune (1737–1818) by George Romney

The Fraser Baronetcy, of Ledeclune in the County of Inverness, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 27 November 1806 for William Fraser. The third Baronet 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. The fourth Baronet was an author and collector and also represented Barnstaple, Ludlow and Kidderminster in the House of Commons. The fifth Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Harborough.

The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1979. [1]

Fraser baronets, of Ledeclune (1806)

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Fraser, Sir Keith Charles Adolphus" . Who's Who . A & C Black.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. Burke, John (1832). A General and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire. H. Colburn and R. Bentley. p. 494.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Foster, Joseph (1883). The Baronetage and Knightage of the British Empire. Westminster: Nichols and Sons. p. 242.
  4. "Fraser, Sir William Augustus" . Who's Who . A & C Black.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. "Fraser, Major Sir Keith Alexander" . Who's Who . A & C Black.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. NPG staff (1912). "Sir Keith Alexander Fraser (1867–1935), Major; Conservative MP for Harborough 1918–1923". National Portrait Gallery . Retrieved 2019-05-08.
  7. Dod's staff (1901). Dod's peerage, baronetage and knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland, for ...: including all the titled classes. S. Low, Marston & Co. p. 372.
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