Hugh Fraser (British judge)

Sir Hugh Fraser (1860 – 8 July 1927) was a British barrister and English High Court judge.

The son of Thomas Fraser, of Farraline, Inverness-shire, Fraser was educated in England at Charterhouse School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he was an exhibitioner, scholar, law student, and won the Cressingham Prize; in 1885 he was proxime accessit for the Chancellor’s medal for Legal Studies.

He was elected a Bencher of the Inner Temple in 1918 and an honorary fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1925.

Fraser was appointed to the High Court in 1924, and was assigned to the King's Bench Division.

As a member of the junior bar, his appointment was extremely unusual; but was generally welcomed.