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Hugh Fraser

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Hugh Fraser (22 February 1837 – 4 June 1894) was an English diplomat who served as the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom to the Japan Empire in the late 1800s. Early life Fraser was born on 22 February 1837 in Kent, England and was the son of Sir John Fraser, KCMG (1792–1864), and Lady Selima Charlotte Baldwin (1798–1882), who married in 1834. He came from the Balnain (Inverness) branch of Clan Fraser, Scotland. His paternal grandparents were William Mackenzie Fraser, Esq. M.D. of Balnain, Scotland, and Isabel Skinner (herself the fifth daughter of American-born General Cortlandt Skinner, a descendant of the Dutch colonial Schuyler family). His maternal grandfather was William Baldwin Esq. of Stede Hill near Harrietsham, Kent. Through his father, he was related to Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg. Fraser, like his father, attended Eton College from 1849 to 1854.

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Hugh Fraser (22 February 1837 – 4 June 1894) was an English diplomat who served as the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom to the Japan Empire in the late 1800s. Early life Fraser was born on 22 February 1837 in Kent, England and was the son of Sir John Fraser, KCMG (1792–1864), and Lady Selima Charlotte Baldwin (1798–1882), who married in 1834. He came from the Balnain (Inverness) branch of Clan Fraser, Scotland. His paternal grandparents were William Mackenzie Fraser, Esq. M.D. of Balnain, Scotland, and Isabel Skinner (herself the fifth daughter of American-born General Cortlandt Skinner, a descendant of the Dutch colonial Schuyler family). His maternal grandfather was William Baldwin Esq. of Stede Hill near Harrietsham, Kent. Through his father, he was related to Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg. Fraser, like his father, attended Eton College from 1849 to 1854.

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Hugh Fraser: English actor and theatre director · Canadian musician (1958–2020) · British military officer & colonial administrator · politician (1918-1984)