Using money he made from the construction of Union Street, in which he made a large number of people homeless [see The Life and Times of Fraser Mackintosh, pages 23 to 34 ] he bought and laid out the Drummond estate (1863), which had previously belonged to Fraser-Mackintosh's great-great uncle Provost Phineas Mackintosh[3][4] and Ballifeary estates (1860s).
[8] It is thought that Fraser-Mackintosh rendered legal assistance to Mairi Mhòr nan Oran when she was accused of theft from her employer in 1872.
[9] He is one of the land rights campaigners mentioned in her celebrated poem Nuair a chaidh na ceithir ùr oirre.
[11] Initially he was opposed to agrarian unrest, arguing that negative consequences would occur if Scottish Gaels adopted the tactics of the Irish Land League and came to be seen as "discontented and disaffected.
[13] He was returned unopposed in 1886, but opposing home rule for Ireland,[14] he joined the Liberal Unionist Party, and lost the support of the local Highland Land League.