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Name: FRASER, Alexander Garden CBE (Rev.)
Birth Date: 6 Oct 1873 Tillicoultry, Clackmannan
Death Date: 27 Jan 1962 St. Leonards on Sea
Nationality: British
First Date: 1900
Last Date: 1903
Profession: Missionary with the CMS in Uganda. After leaving Uganda he became Principal of Trinity College, Kandy, Ceylon, a position he held for about 20 years. He subsequently went to Accra and started the Prince of Wales College at Achimota.
Area: Mengo, Uganda
Married: In Namirembe 10.1.1901 Annie Beatrice Glass b. 1 Apr 1878 Whickham, Durham, d, Dec 1970 Newcastle upon Tyne
Children: Alexander Garden (2 June 1902 Uganda-1981); Andrew Robert Bruce (16 Nov 1903-1990); Mary Oldham (12 Jan 1906 Kandy, Sri Lanka-1994); Alison Beatrice (25 Oct 1909 Kandy-2001)
Book Reference: Gillett, Tucker, Debrett, EAHB 1905, North, Colonial, UJ, EAHB 1904
War Service: From 1916-18 served as Chaplain to the E. Yorkshire Regt. in France
School: Merchiston Castle & Trinity College, Oxford
General Information:
From 1935-39 he was Warden of Newbattle Abbey College, Dalkeith and then he went to Jamaica for 5 years. From 1946-51 he was Asst. Chaplain at Gordonstoun School.
Tucker - arrived in Uganda in Dec. 1900 - to Mengo ........ Early in 1903 we planned a school for 'Intermediate education'. A.G. Fraser, who was the prime mover in the scheme, was obliged on account of his wife's health to return home.
North - Arr. Mengo Dec 1900; Founder of King's School Buddu 1903; dep. Uganda for England 13/6/1903; resigned on grounds of wife's health 16/2/1904; Moved by CMS to Ceylon
Colonial - Deacon 1913, Priest 1915;
CMS Uganda 1900-03; Prin. Trinity Coll. Kandy Ceylon 1904; Chaplain with 3rd Divn. France 1917-18; Chaplain to the Forces; Principal, Prince of Wales College, Achimota Gold Coast 1924
Uganda Journal - Vol. 30, p. 108 - A.G. (Alek) Fraser widely known as the inspired headmaster who, having re-animated Trinity College, Kandy, became the indomitable architect and first Principal of Achimota. His career has a surprising number of links with Uganda. It was here under the CMS that he served his apprenticeship. He reached Uganda towards the end of 1900, there to join his fiancée and life-long companion, Beatrice Glass, who had preceded him by some months. They were married at Namirembe in January 1901.
For a while he helped C.W. Hattersley in his recently established Mengo High School. Here he diagnosed Uganda's need for secondary education, and to him more than to any one person is probably due the germ of the idea which blossomed as King's College, Budo. The ill-health of Mrs Fraser compelled them to withdraw from Uganda in 1903.
There followed his long reign (1904-24) at Trinity, to which his growing reputation attracted a number of boys from Buganda. His life-work was crowned by over 10 years (1924-35) at Achimota. With him he took as his first Bursar an old companion of the road to Uganda, Charles Phillips, whose sterling work as accountant and factotum of the Uganda Mission had impressed him 20 years before. Another of Fraser's original team, as chaplain of Achimota, was Cyril Stuart with his bride, Mary, whom Uganda was later to welcome as Bishop and Mrs Stuart.
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