Thomas Fraser
1840–1922
Military officer. Attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Commissioned in the Royal Engineers, 1862; captain, 1874; major 1878; colonel, 1885; major-general, 1896; colonel-commandant, 1913. Adjutant-general and quartermaster-general in the Egyptian army, 1882–5. His sister, Elizabeth, married Leonard Darwin in 1882.
Sources
Biographical dictionary of the Sudan
Freeman 1978 s.v. Fraser, Elizabeth Frances
Statement of military service, Royal Engineers
Bibliography
Biographical dictionary of the Sudan: A biographical dictionary of the Sudan. By Richard Hill. [The second edition of A biographical dictionary of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.] London: Frank Cass & Company. 1967.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1978. Charles Darwin: a companion. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
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