The son of the businessman, pastoralist, and politician Simon Fraser, he was born in the Melbourne suburb of Toorak in August 1890.
[3] Playing primarily as a leg break googly bowler, he took a total of 59 wickets in his seventeen matches for Oxford, at an average of 23.57.
His father died in July 1919, with Fraser inheriting his property at Balpool-Nyang sheep station of 15,000 hectares (37,000 acres) on the Edward River near Moulamein in the Riverina district of New South Wales.
Despite being a trained lawyer,[12] he decided to focus his attention to being a pastoralist, preferring the life of a grazier.
He married Una Arnold (née Woolf) at St Mark's Church, Darling Point in 1926.