Sir Hugh Fraser, 2nd Baronet (18 December 1936 – 5 May 1987) formerly 2nd Baron Fraser of Allander, was a British

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of the

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, George Outram and Company, and Whyte and Mackay. He lived at Mugdock, near

Milngavie Milngavie ( ; ) is a town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland and a suburb of Glasgow. It is on the Allander Water, at the northwestern edge of Greater Glasgow, and about from Glasgow city centre. It neighbours Bearsden. Milngavie is a commuter t ...

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. He was the son of

Hugh Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of Allander Hugh Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of Allander (15 January 1903 – 6 November 1966), was the grandson of Hugh Fraser I, and the father of Sir Hugh Fraser, 2nd Baronet. He inherited his father's shop and built it into the large retail chain now ...

, and inherited the Barony of Fraser of Allander on his father's death in 1966, but disclaimed it for life the same year. He has three daughters. He was not related to the politician Sir Hugh Fraser.

Career

Fraser was educated at St Mary's School, Melrose and

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. He was given an

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by the

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, where one of the student residences is now named ''Fraser of Allander'' after him. In 1981, he gifted the Mugdock Castle estate (purchased by his father) to the regional council as a

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. In 1960, he established the Hugh Fraser Foundation for charitable work. He was also a major benefactor to the Glasgow Scout Association and was chairman of Dumbarton Football Club. It was alleged by a Channel 5 documentary that Fraser put up the money for an attempted abduction of

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from Brazil, so the latter could stand trial in Britain for his part in the Great Train Robbery. Hugh Fraser died from

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in 1987, aged 50.

References

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