6th Sep 1784 - 22nd Mar 1835
Son of Edward Satchwell Fraser of Reelig (q.v.). In the ODNB as a colonial administrator: "The [family's Scottish] estate was heavily mortgaged as a result of poor investments in Guiana, and William went to India in 1801 expressly to repair the family's fortunes." Assassinated in Delhi in 1835.
Katherine Prior, ‘Fraser, William (1784–1835)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 16/11/2015.
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British/Irish
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Occupation
Civil Servant (East India Company)
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Oxford DNB Entry
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V & A: Prints, Drawings & Paintings
Watercolour; painting, village scene with buffalo; Jat women, Delhi, ca.1816. From the Fraser Album, which incorporated paintings commissioned by William Fraser (1784-1835), an East India Company...
notes → Full details at: Victoria & Albert Museum Collection: South & South...
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East India Company
Administrative
notes → Colonial administrator; assassinated in Delhi in 1835. See ODNB for details of his...
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Reelig, Kirkhill, Inverness-shire, Highlands & Islands, Scotland
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1785 - 1854
Jamaican-born widow of a prominent slave-owner; resident in Britain following the death of her husband in 1818. Accused - and acquitted - of the cruel treatment of some enslaved people whom she brought to Britain with her.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'William Fraser', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146644685 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
