The following year he was admitted to the Scottish Faculty of Advocates, where he soon earned a reputation as an excellent jurist.
Later he transferred to the Royal Artillery, was promoted to the rank of major and served in the theatre of war in Burma.
In 1974 he was appointed to the Privy Council, and on 13 January 1975 was created a life peer with the title Baron Fraser of Tullybelton, of Bankfoot in the County of Perth, and took the office of Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
[1] Fraser was a very active member of the House of Lords and dealt primarily with issues of further development of the administration of justice.
He died on 17 February 1989 in a car crash on the M90 motorway between Perth and Edinburgh during a snow storm.
They have a distinct social identity based not simply on group cohesion and solidarity but also on their belief as to their historical antecedents.