James Fraser (rugby union)
| Birth name | James William Fraser | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 30 May 1859 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Kingston upon Hull, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 21 January 1943 (aged 83) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Kingston upon Hull, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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James Fraser was a Scotland international rugby union player.[1]
Rugby Union career
[edit]Amateur career
[edit]He played for Edinburgh Institution F.P.[2]
International career
[edit]He was capped just the once for Scotland, in 1881.[3]
Medical career
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ "James William Fraser". ESPN scrum.
- ^ Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.
- ^ "Rugby Union – ESPN Scrum – Statsguru – Player analysis – James Fraser – Test matches". ESPN scrum.
- ^ a b "Deaths". Hull Daily Mail. 23 January 1943. p. 2 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Late Dr J. W. Fraser". Hull Daily Mail. 25 January 1943. p. 3 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ a b c "A Pioneer School Medical Service". Hull Daily Mail. 22 January 1943. p. 3 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Robinson, Hannah (6 October 2019). "The 'wicked' building that has been wiped off the face of Hull". HullLive.
- ^ "Ancestry Sign-In". www.ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
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