James Fraser (rugby union)

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James Fraser
Birth nameJames William Fraser
Date of birth(1859-05-30)30 May 1859
Place of birth Kingston upon Hull, England
Date of death21 January 1943(1943-01-21) (aged 83)
Place of death Kingston upon Hull, England
Rugby union career
Position(s) Forward
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
– Edinburgh Institution F.P. ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1881 Scotland 1 (0)

James Fraser was a Scotland international rugby union player. [1]

Contents

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He played for Edinburgh Institution F.P. [2]

International career

He was capped just the once for Scotland, in 1881. [3]

Medical career

Fraser became a doctor. [4] He became the first full time medical officer to the Hull Education Authority. [5] He maintained that post till he retired in 1926. [6]

Other interests

He was greatly interested in the Hull Subscription Library. He was also very involved with the youth of the city, and was a chairman of the local Young People's Institute. [6]

Family

He was the eldest son of Evan Fraser (1826–1906), a Scottish doctor from Duddingston; and Sarah Hewat (born 1829) from Portobello. [4] Evan Fraser and Sarah Hewat moved to Hull shortly after their marriage in 1858 – and he became chairman of the Hull Health committee. The Evan Fraser hospital in Hull bore his name. The hospital specialised in infectious diseases; notably smallpox. [7] James was one of five children the couple had.

James Fraser married Rose Thorney in 1883. Miss Thorney was the daughter of the Hull city coroner. [6] They had a daughter, Dorothy, in 1885. James outlived his wife, who died in 1927, and his daughter, who died in 1941. He died in the Victoria Nursing Home in 1943, leaving £7,511 and 2 shillings in his estate. [8]

References

  1. ↑ "James William Fraser". ESPN scrum.
  2. ↑ Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.
  3. ↑ "Rugby Union – ESPN Scrum – Statsguru – Player analysis – James Fraser – Test matches". ESPN scrum.
  4. 1 2 "Deaths". Hull Daily Mail. 23 January 1943. p. 2 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "Late Dr J. W. Fraser". Hull Daily Mail. 25 January 1943. p. 3 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. 1 2 3 "A Pioneer School Medical Service". Hull Daily Mail. 22 January 1943. p. 3 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ↑ Robinson, Hannah (6 October 2019). "The 'wicked' building that has been wiped off the face of Hull". HullLive.
  8. ↑ "Ancestry Sign-In". www.ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
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