Lieutenant-General Alexander George Fraser, 17th Lord Saltoun KT KCB GCH KStG KMT[1] (22 April 1785 – 18 August 1853), was a Scottish representative peer and a British Army general who fought in the Napoleonic Wars and the First Opium War.
He served with the grenadiers in Sicily (1806), at Coruna (1808), on Walcheren (1809), and in Spain and France from 1812 to 1814.
[1] "Towards the close of Waterloo day he returned to his place in the line with about but one-third of the men with whom he had gone into action.
[2] He was promoted to the rank of major-general in 1837 and later commanded the first brigade in the Battle of Chinkiang (1842) during the First Opium War and afterwards the whole force until 1843.
Fraser married the daughter of Lord Chancellor Thurlow.