Alexander Garden Fraser (6 October 1873 – 27 January 1962), MA, CBE, was a British educator and Anglican vicar.

He was named after his paternal grandfather Rev Prof Alexander Garden Fraser DD (1814-1904) a New York born minister who joined the Free Church of Scotland and spent most of his life teaching in India.

[1] Educated at Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, and Trinity College, Oxford, he initially intended to study law, but became involved with the Student Volunteer Missionary Union.

Prior to joining Achimota School, he was the principal of the Trinity College, Ceylon, for the 20-year period from 1904 to 1924.

In his day (1904–1924), Trinity College became a multi-faceted educational institution, equal to that of any leading school in the British Commonwealth.

He had the power of persuasion, which he used to inspire brilliant men from Oxford and Cambridge to serve as Anglican missionaries at Trinity College.

During his years as Principal, Fraser obtained a lease of land from the War Office[3] and levelled it to create a playing field, which was later to become the Asgiriya Stadium.

[4] Apparently, Fraser and Aggrey first met in January 1924 at the home of J. H. Oldham at Chipstead in Surrey, United Kingdom.

He said 'Don't you remember that four years ago we lunched at a restaurant in Soho, Mr. and Mrs. Fraser and you and your wife, before going to a matinée?'

Fraser and the other founders made personal sacrifices to realise their dream of the first co-educational institution in the Gold Coast.

When Aggrey died in the United States on 30 July 1927, Fraser wrote: 'Williams could fill my place.

It was not only his great oratorial gifts and sparkling kindly humour, but it was his transparent sincerity, his intense belief in them, his ardent love of Africa, and his flaming purity ...

If Achimota has caught the imagination of West Africa today, and I believe it has, it is due to Aggrey more than any other six men ...

[6] At Achimota School, Fraser and his staff, including Aggrey, shared the belief that Africans should not be turned into pseudo-Europeans but taught to retain the highest values of their own culture.

His sons Alistair Garden (Sandy) and Andrew (his younger brother) both taught at Achimota for many years.