Alexander Fraser (British Army officer, born 1824)

General Alexander Fraser, CB (8 May 1824 – 10 June 1898) was a British Army officer in the Royal (Bengal) Engineers, who served in India and Burma.

[1] Son of James Fraser, he was born in Prestbury, Gloucestershire on 8 May 1824 and was educated at Kings College and Addiscombe before joining the Bengal Engineers in 1843.

[2] Fraser examined the Alguada Reef in December 1856 on the orders of Lord Canning after 286 people were killed in a shipwreck.

The holophotal light on the tower was lit on 23 April 1865 and was 144 feet above the high-water mark and visible from 20 nautical miles.

[3][4] In 1846, Fraser married Caroline Rosetta daughter of Beaumont Dixie Small, a surgeon in the Bengal Medical Service, at Madras.

The Alguada Reef Lighthouse, south of Cape Negrais, on the coast of Pegu, Illustrated London News 21 October 1865 ( 15°43′00″N 94°12′00″E  /  15.7167°N 94.2°E  / 15.7167; 94.2 )