He succeeded to the chiefship in July 1544, aged seventeen, after his father Hugh Fraser, 3rd Lord Lovat and elder brother Simon were killed in the battle of Loch Lochy.
[1] He was made the legal ward of Robert Reid, Bishop of Orkney (d. 1558), who was a relative of his mother's.
In 1555 he waited on Mary of Guise when she came to Inverness to hold assizes.
[2] Their children included:[3] When Janet Campbell died in 1592 she left her two silver goblets, a bed with "Scottish green" curtains, and the high table of Dalcross Castle to her grandson Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat.
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