| Notes |
- A son of war hero Lord Lovat has died, aged 63. The Right Honourable Hugh Fraser, who lived at Balblair House, Kirkhill, near Inverness, died on Sunday after a battle with cancer.
Last night tributes were led by his brother Kim Fraser, of Lovat Estates.
Mr Fraser said: "He was a quiet man, intelligent, more inclined towards the intellectual side. He was a serious historian, very intellectually curious but liked to keep himself to himself.
"He did a number of things in the community. He was very much liked by everybody and had many friends from his university days who have gone on to great things."
Hugh Fraser was born at the family seat, Beaufort Castle, Kiltarlity, in November 1947, the fifth child of the 17th Lord Lovat. Like his brothers, Simon, Kim and younger sibling Andrew, he was educated at Ampleforth. He went on to study philosophy, politics and economics at Christchurch College, Oxford.
After his graduation, he joined Marks and Spencer's management trainee scheme, working in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Leicester.
He went on to work as an estate manager for the Earl of Seafield in Aberdeenshire and it was during his time there he married his wife, Drusilla.
They met at a party in London in October 1975, and after a whirlwind courtship lasting three weeks and five days, they were engaged.
They married on May 1, 1976, and went on to have three children, Raoul, Poppy and Eloise.
After spending several years in Aberdeenshire, they moved to Inverness-shire, where Mr Fraser took over the running of Ord Farm at Muir of Ord.
His wife said: "He loved farming, but trees were his great love ? native woodland trees in particular. He was terribly knowledgeable on the subject."
A well-known and popular member of the local community, Mrs Fraser said he was chairman of the Black Isle Group co-operative movement, a member of the Highlands and Islands Valuation Appeal Committee, and a former chairman of the Royal Scottish Forestry Society.
She said he was also a member of the National Arts Collection Fund, a governor of Butterstone School at Dunkeld and a director of Moray Firth Salmon Fisheries.
In the mid-1990s, the family was struck by tragedy when two of Mr Fraser's brothers, Simon and Andrew, died within months of each other. A year later, his father - a commando leader during World War II ? died.
Mr Fraser was a devout church-goer and a regular at St Lawrence's Catholic Church in Dingwall.
His funeral, at Eskadale Church, Kiltarlity, at 12.30pm on Monday will be led by the Archbishop of Glasgow, Mario Conti. His friend, Francis Russell, the deputy chairman of Christies Auctioneers in London, will lead the eulog
|
1947 - 2011 (63 years)