Patrick Fraser, Lord Fraser

The University of Edinburgh awarded him an honorary doctorate (LLD) in 1871 for his historical research.

He served as Dean of the Faculty of Advocates from 1878 to 1881[2] and was created Queen's Counsel in 1880.

[3] Fraser published widely in the area of commercial and family law.

He was among those who established the tradition of scientific monographs treating specific questions of law from a critical historical and philosophical point of view.

He married Margaret Ann Sharp, daughter of a Birmingham merchant.