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Famous Scots - Hugh Fraser 1st Lord Of Allander
Hugh Fraser, House of Fraser
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 known as House of Fraser. in Partick, Lanarkshire (now in Glasgow), Hugh Fraser was educated at Glasgow Academy and Warriston School near Moffat.[1]
In 1919 he joined his father's business, a shop in Buchanan Street in Glasgow.[1] He became Managing Director in 1924 and Chairman on his father's death in 1927.[1] He expanded the business by acquisition buying department stores throughout Scotland as well as the John Barker Group and Harrods in England and Argentina In 1948 he established Scottish & Universal Investments ('SUITS') to acquire non-retail businesses including the Glasgow Herald. In 1945 he purchased Mugdock Castle from the Duke of Montrose.
He was created a Baronet, styled "of Dineiddwg in the County of Stirling", in 1961,[2] and was subsequently created Baron Fraser of Allander, of Dineiddwg in the County of Stirling, in 1964. He died in 1966 at Mugdock Castle.
Headstone Photograph
Further Information
Title: 1ST LORD OF ALLANDER
Firstname: HUGH
LastName: FRASER
Date of Death: 6th Nov 1966
Age at Death: 63
Cemetery: Kilmaronock Cemetery
Sirling Road
Gartocharn
Region: Glasgow and Clyde Valley
Country: Scotland
Please Note, the marker on this map indicates the Cemetery location, not the location of a particular grave.
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