Marjory Kennedy-Fraser CBE (1 October 1857 – 22 November 1930) was a Scottish singer, composer and music teacher and supporter of women's suffrage and pacifism.

Various of her siblings were also professional musicians, and three of them (Lizzie, Kate and James — soprano, contralto and baritone respectively) died in the fire that burnt down the Théâtre municipal of Nice, France, in 1881.

She became an extra-academical student at the University of Edinburgh school of Music, gathering a collection of Breton and Gaelic folksongs from 1882 onwards, which were later published.

The couple travelled to South Africa, where the hotter weather contributed for Alec's health to improve considerably, but as soon as they returned to Glasgow, he became ill again and died in November 1890.

In the 1890s, Kennedy-Fraser gave lecture recitals at the Summer Meetings which Patrick Geddes organised at University Hall Extension in Edinburgh.

Among of the songs included in this collection eventually came to be widely known were Tàladh Chrìosda, which she renamed "The Christ Child's Lullaby", and the "Eriskay Love Lilt".

In order to preserve the original wax cylinder recordings, they were re-recorded on tape several decades later for the Sound Archives of the School of Scottish Studies.

[9] More recently, they have been digitized and are held in the collections at the University of Edinburgh,[10] with her archived papers, including related to her libretto for Granvile Bantock’s opera 'The Seal Woman', and proofs of 'Life of Song' (which became her autobiography, 1929).

[4] Although her parents and husband are buried in the Grange Cemetery in south Edinburgh, the substantial gravestone lying against the southern boundary wall, her own grave is in the island of Iona.

The subjects range from poetic rhapsodies founded on the natural features of the islands or its life to the homelier songs that are sung as an accompaniment to various forms of manual labor.

In a 1919 concert review, Ezra Pound, reporting as William Atheling in the New Age, declared that Rosing was "the first singer who has been adequate to the music.

"[13] Kennedy Fraser supported women's suffrage and Scottish independence, and used her knowledge of Scots and Gaelic song traditions to give examples which reinforced her views.

[19] She later became one of the founders of the Bangour Village Hospital, West Lothian which provided care and new ways of treating World War I combat veterans with 'shell-shock'.