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She is mentioned in the beginning of A S Byatt's novel The Virgin in the Garden where, the Poet-Playwright character Alexander Wedderburn likens Lady Antonia Fraser to Belphoebe and the heroine of the Quartet ,( consisting of the novelsThe Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower & A Whistling Woman ), Frederica Potter to " Britomart ".
A number of well-known people were educated at Dumfries Academy, among them Henry Duncan, founder of the world's first commercial savings bank, Sir James Anderson, who captained the SS Great Eastern on the Transatlantic telegraph cable laying voyages in 1865 and 1866, James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, missionary Jane Haining, international diplomat Alexander Knox Helm, John Laurie, actor ( Private Fraser in Dad's Army ), artist Robin Philipson, singer John Hanson, Alex Graham, cartoonist best known for the Fred Basset series and Jock Wishart, who in 1998 set a new world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powered vessel.
Bisset was born Winifred Jacqueline Fraser Bisset in Weybridge, Surrey, England, the daughter of Arlette Alexander, a lawyer turned housewife of French and English descent, and Max Fraser Bisset, a Scottish general practitioner.
A grant from the Scottish Parliament in 1595 allowed the first college building to be erected by Alexander Fraser, and in 1597 the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland recommended the Rev.
His older brother, Alexander Fraser, was heir apparent to the barony and served in the army of Viscount Dundee ( Claverhouse ) at the Battle of Killiecrankie ( 1689 ).
** John Finlay ( proprietor ), Simon Fraser, Alexander MacKenzie, Duncan Livingston, John Stuart, James Porter, John Thompson, James McDougall, G. F. Wintzel, John Heinbrucks ;
** Alexander Fraser ( proprietor ), John MacGillivray, Robert Henry, Louis Versailles, Charles Messier, Pierre Hurteau ;
He was assistant lecturer successively to Sir William Hamilton and Alexander Campbell Fraser ( 1856 – 60 ).
It is also possible that the founding of another college in nearby Fraserburgh by Sir Alexander Fraser, a business rival of Keith, was instrumental in its creation.
* Alexander Ramsay of Mar ( 21 December 1919 – 20 December 2000 ), married, 1956, Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun, and had issue.
In 1956, Ramsay married Flora Fraser ( born 18 October 1930 ), the only daughter of Alexander Fraser, 20th Lord Saltoun and chief of the Name of Fraser.
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