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Simon Fraser (20 May 1776 – 18 August 1862) was a Canadian explorer and fur trader who charted much of what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia. He also built the first European settlement in British Columbia.
Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, c. 1667 – 9 April 1747, [a] was a Scottish clan chief and head of Clan Fraser of Lovat.Convicted of high treason for his role in the Jacobite rising of 1745, he was the last man in Britain to be executed by beheading.
Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada. It maintains three campuses in Greater Vancouver , respectively located in Burnaby (main campus), Surrey , and Vancouver .
Simon Fraser was the son of Simon Fraser, Sheriff of Peebles and Keeper of the forests of Selkirk and Traquair (died 1291), and his wife Maria. [1] [2]Perhaps because he was slow in submitting to Edward I of England - he only did so on 23 July 1291 - the younger Simon Fraser did not succeed his father in his offices.
Simon Fraser, the younger of Lovat (1765–1803), commanded the Fraser Fencibles in Ireland and was M.P. for Inverness-shire Simon Fraser (explorer) (1776–1862), Canadian explorer Sir Simon Fraser (Australian politician) (1832–1919), member of the Australian Senate, father of the below
Simon Fraser (1729 – 7 October 1777) was a British general during the American War of Independence. He was killed in the Battle of Bemis Heights during the Saratoga Campaign .
Fraser speaking at Chatham House, September 2015. Sir Simon James Fraser GCMG (born 3 June 1958) [1] is a British former diplomat who served as the Permanent Under-Secretary of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from August 2010 to July 2015, [2] having served as Permanent Secretary of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills from May 2009 to August 2010.
Stirling was born on 9 May 1911, the eldest son of Brigadier General Archibald Stirling of Keir, a Scottish laird and Margaret Fraser, daughter of Simon Fraser, 13th Lord Lovat. [2] [3] His parents had married in 1910 when his father was 42 and his mother was 29. [4]