Fraser's background was an Inverness family, and he carried on business at 215 Regent Street, London.
The story of the dealings between the author and "the infatuated Fraser, with his dog's-meat tart of a magazine", was told in J.
Cross actions were tried on 3 December, on the part of Fraser for assault, and Berkeley for libel.
Five years later it was transferred to John William Parker, and it continued under the same name to October 1882, when it was superseded by Longman's Magazine.
[1] The Gallery of Illustrious Literary Characters came out in Fraser's Magazine between 1830 and 1838, comprising 81 portraits, mainly by Daniel Maclise, with text by Maginn.