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Lord Saltoun

KT KCB GCH
Alexander Fraser, 16th Baron Saltoun by William Salter.jpg
Portrait by William Salter, c. 1837
Born 22 April 1785
London, England
Died 18 August 1853
Rothes, Scotland
Buried
Fraserburgh, Scotland
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Rank Lieutenant-General
Battles/wars Napoleonic Wars,
First Opium War
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Drawing of statue by Edward Bowring Stephens (1815–1882) of Lt-Gen. Alexander Fraser, 17th Lord Saltoun (1785–1853) at Fraserburgh Town House

Lieutenant-General Alexander George Fraser, 17th Lord Saltoun KT KCB GCHKStG KMT (22 April 1785 – 18 August 1853), was a Scottish representative peer and a British Army general who fought in the Napoleonic Wars and the First Opium War.

Biography

He served with the grenadiers in Sicily (1806), at Coruna (1808), on Walcheren (1809), and in Spain and France from 1812 to 1814. In 1815, Lord Saltoun fought as a captain in the First Regiment of Guards (later the Grenadier Guards) in the Orchard at Hougomont on the morning of the Battle of Waterloo. During the battle he had four horses shot from underneath him.

Following Waterloo he was created both a Knight of St. George of Russia (KStG) and also a knight of the Austrian Military Order of Maria Theresa (KMT).

Fraser was described by Wellington as a "pattern to the army both as man and soldier."

He was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order (GCH) in 1821 and a Knight of the Thistle in 1852. He was a Scottish representative peer from 1807 until his death and a Lord of the Bedchamber from 1821.

He was promoted to the rank of major-general in 1837 and later commanded the first brigade in the Battle of Chinkiang (1842) during the First Opium War and afterwards the whole force until 1843. He was further promoted to lieutenant-general in 1849.

Family

He was the son of Alexander Fraser, 16th Lord Saltoun (1758–1793) and Margaret, only daughter of Simon Fraser of Ness Castle. Fraser married the daughter of Lord Chancellor Thurlow. Fraser died in Rothes, Scotland on 18 August 1853.

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