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==Personal life==
==Personal life==
Fraser was the daughter of Elizabeth Taylor Watt and Robert Forbes.<ref name="whoswhoM">{{cite web|title=FRASER, Lady Marion Anne|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U16392|work=Who's Who 2009, A & C Black, 2008; online edn|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=December 2008|accessdate=30 May 2009}}</ref> She was attended school in Glasgow at [[Hutchesons' Girls' Grammar School]], going on to the [[University of Glasgow]] in 1950, to study for an [[Master of Arts|MA]]. While a student at the University, she was elected President of the [[Queen Margaret Union]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/news/headline_507904_en.html|title=University of Glasgow - Lady Marion Fraser - a tribute|date=16 January 2017|website=University of Glasgow|access-date=2017-01-20|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201235019/http://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/news/headline_507904_en.html|archivedate=1 February 2017}}</ref> She then attended the [[Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama]] where she studied piano.<ref name=":0" />
Fraser was the daughter of Elizabeth Taylor Watt and Robert Forbes.<ref name="whoswhoM">{{cite web|title=FRASER, Lady Marion Anne|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U16392|work=Who's Who 2009, A & C Black, 2008; online edn|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=December 2008|accessdate=30 May 2009}}</ref> She attended school in Glasgow at [[Hutchesons' Girls' Grammar School]], going on to the [[University of Glasgow]] in 1950, to study for an [[Master of Arts|MA]]. While a student at the university, she was elected president of the [[Queen Margaret Union]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/news/headline_507904_en.html|title=University of Glasgow - Lady Marion Fraser - a tribute|date=16 January 2017|website=University of Glasgow|access-date=2017-01-20|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201235019/http://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/news/headline_507904_en.html|archivedate=1 February 2017}}</ref> She then attended the [[Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama]] where she studied piano.<ref name=":0" />


In 1956, she married [[William Kerr Fraser]], a former President of the [[Glasgow University Students' Representative Council]] and at the time a junior civil servant at the [[Scottish Office]].<ref name="uswkf">{{cite web|title=Biography of Sir William Kerr Fraser|url=http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH2032&type=P|work=University Story|publisher=[[University of Glasgow]]|accessdate=30 May 2009}}</ref> He went on to become [[Permanent Secretary]] there, and later [[Principal of the University of Glasgow|Principal]] and then [[Chancellor of the University of Glasgow]].<ref name="whoswhoW">{{cite web|title=FRASER, Sir William Kerr|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U16398|work=Who's Who 2009, A & C Black, 2008; online edn|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=December 2008|accessdate=30 May 2009}}</ref> The couple had four children, three sons and one daughter.<ref name="whoswhoM"/>
In 1956, she married [[William Kerr Fraser]], a former president of the [[Glasgow University Students' Representative Council]] and at the time a junior civil servant at the [[Scottish Office]].<ref name="uswkf">{{cite web|title=Biography of Sir William Kerr Fraser|url=http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH2032&type=P|work=University Story|publisher=[[University of Glasgow]]|accessdate=30 May 2009}}</ref> He went on to become [[permanent secretary]] there, and later [[Principal of the University of Glasgow|principal]] and then [[Chancellor of the University of Glasgow]].<ref name="whoswhoW">{{cite web|title=FRASER, Sir William Kerr|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U16398|work=Who's Who 2009, A & C Black, 2008; online edn|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=December 2008|accessdate=30 May 2009}}</ref> The couple had three sons and one daughter.<ref name="whoswhoM"/>


==Career==
==Career==
Fraser worked as a music teacher and became Director of [[St Mary's Music School]] in [[Edinburgh]] from 1989 to 1995, as well as being Founding Chair of the Friends of the [[Royal Scottish Academy]] from 1986 to 1989, a governor of the former [[Laurel Bank School]] for Girls from 1988 to 1995 and a Director of [[Scottish Opera]] from 1990 to 1994. In 1996, shortly after stepping down as Director of St. Mary's, she was created a Lady of the [[Order of the Thistle]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=54597|date=3 December 1996|page=15995}}</ref> Her husband had been created a Knight Commander of the [[Order of the Bath]] in 1979 (and subsequently elevated within the order to Knight Grand Cross), entitling her to be addressed as Lady Fraser, however she now became Lady Marion Fraser in her own right.<ref name=":0" />
Fraser worked as a music teacher and became director of [[St Mary's Music School]] in [[Edinburgh]] from 1989 to 1995, as well as being founding chair of the Friends of the [[Royal Scottish Academy]] from 1986 to 1989, a governor of the former [[Laurel Bank School]] for Girls from 1988 to 1995 and a Director of [[Scottish Opera]] from 1990 to 1994. In 1996, shortly after stepping down as Director of St. Mary's, she was created a Lady of the [[Order of the Thistle]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=54597|date=3 December 1996|page=15995}}</ref> Her husband had been created a Knight Commander of the [[Order of the Bath]] in 1979 (and subsequently elevated within the order to Knight Grand Cross), entitling her to be addressed as Lady Fraser; however, she now became Lady Marion Fraser in her own right.<ref name=":0" />


Fraser had been a trustee of the [[Scottish Churches Architectural Heritage Trust]] since 1989, and President of [[Scotland's Churches Scheme]] since 1997.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sacred Scotland - Scotland's Churches Scheme|url=http://www.sacredscotland.org.uk/about-sacred-scotland/people-of-scotland's-churches-scheme|publisher=Sacred Scotland - Scotland's Churches Scheme|accessdate=30 May 2009}}</ref> She was trustee of the [[Lamp of Lothian Collegiate Trust]] from 1996 to 2005, and Chairman of the Board of [[Christian Aid]] from 1990 to 1997, and of both the [[Scottish International Piano Competition]] and the [[Scottish Association for Mental Health]] from 1995 to 1999. She served as [[Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland]] from 1994 to 1995.
Fraser had been a trustee of the [[Scottish Churches Architectural Heritage Trust]] since 1989, and President of [[Scotland's Churches Scheme]] since 1997.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sacred Scotland - Scotland's Churches Scheme|url=http://www.sacredscotland.org.uk/about-sacred-scotland/people-of-scotland's-churches-scheme|publisher=Sacred Scotland - Scotland's Churches Scheme|accessdate=30 May 2009}}</ref> She was trustee of the [[Lamp of Lothian Collegiate Trust]] from 1996 to 2005, and chairman of the Board of [[Christian Aid]] from 1990 to 1997, and of both the [[Scottish International Piano Competition]] and the [[Scottish Association for Mental Health]] from 1995 to 1999. She served as [[Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland]] from 1994 to 1995.


Fraser was made an Honorary Member of the [[Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh]] in 1998<ref>{{cite web|title=The Merchant Company, The City of Edinburgh, Honorary Members|url=http://www.mcoe.org.uk/webpages/companytoday_honorary.htm|publisher=[[Merchant Company of Edinburgh]]|accessdate=30 May 2009|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107025322/http://www.mcoe.org.uk/webpages/companytoday_honorary.htm|archivedate=7 January 2009}}</ref> and an Honorary Fellow of the [[Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow]] in 2002, and was awarded an [[honorary degree|honorary]] [[Doctor of Laws|LL.D.]] degree by the University of Glasgow in 1995 and an honorary [[Doctor of the University|D.Univ.]] degree by the [[University of Stirling]] in 1998.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.externalrelations.stir.ac.uk/events/honorary-graduates/1998-2007.php|title=Honorary Graduates of The University of Stirling - 1998 to 2007|website=University of Edinburgh|access-date=2017-01-20}}</ref>
Fraser was made an Honorary Member of the [[Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh]] in 1998<ref>{{cite web|title=The Merchant Company, The City of Edinburgh, Honorary Members|url=http://www.mcoe.org.uk/webpages/companytoday_honorary.htm|publisher=[[Merchant Company of Edinburgh]]|accessdate=30 May 2009|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107025322/http://www.mcoe.org.uk/webpages/companytoday_honorary.htm|archivedate=7 January 2009}}</ref> and an Honorary Fellow of the [[Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow]] in 2002, and was awarded an [[honorary degree|honorary]] [[Doctor of Laws|LL.D.]] degree by the [[University of Glasgow]] in 1995 and an honorary [[Doctor of the University|D.Univ.]] degree by the [[University of Stirling]] in 1998.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.externalrelations.stir.ac.uk/events/honorary-graduates/1998-2007.php|title=Honorary Graduates of The University of Stirling - 1998 to 2007|website=University of Edinburgh|access-date=2017-01-20}}</ref>


She died at St Columba's Hospice, Edinburgh, on 25 December 2016.
She died at St Columba's Hospice, Edinburgh, on 25 December 2016.
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Lady
Marion Fraser
LT
Born
Marion Anne Forbes

(1932-10-17)17 October 1932
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Died25 December 2016(2016-12-25) (aged 84)
Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland
NationalityScottish
EducationHutchesons' Grammar School
Alma materRoyal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
University of Glasgow (MA, 1954)
Occupation(s)Musician, educator
Spouse
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(m. 1956)​
Children4

Lady Marion Anne Fraser LT (née Forbes; 17 October 1932 – 25 December 2016) was a Scottish music educator.[1]

Personal life

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Fraser was the daughter of Elizabeth Taylor Watt and Robert Forbes.[2] She attended school in Glasgow at Hutchesons' Girls' Grammar School, going on to the University of Glasgow in 1950, to study for an MA. While a student at the university, she was elected president of the Queen Margaret Union.[3] She then attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama where she studied piano.[3]

In 1956, she married William Kerr Fraser, a former president of the Glasgow University Students' Representative Council and at the time a junior civil servant at the Scottish Office.[4] He went on to become permanent secretary there, and later principal and then Chancellor of the University of Glasgow.[5] The couple had three sons and one daughter.[2]

Career

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Fraser worked as a music teacher and became director of St Mary's Music School in Edinburgh from 1989 to 1995, as well as being founding chair of the Friends of the Royal Scottish Academy from 1986 to 1989, a governor of the former Laurel Bank School for Girls from 1988 to 1995 and a Director of Scottish Opera from 1990 to 1994. In 1996, shortly after stepping down as Director of St. Mary's, she was created a Lady of the Order of the Thistle.[6] Her husband had been created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1979 (and subsequently elevated within the order to Knight Grand Cross), entitling her to be addressed as Lady Fraser; however, she now became Lady Marion Fraser in her own right.[3]

Fraser had been a trustee of the Scottish Churches Architectural Heritage Trust since 1989, and President of Scotland's Churches Scheme since 1997.[7] She was trustee of the Lamp of Lothian Collegiate Trust from 1996 to 2005, and chairman of the Board of Christian Aid from 1990 to 1997, and of both the Scottish International Piano Competition and the Scottish Association for Mental Health from 1995 to 1999. She served as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland from 1994 to 1995.

Fraser was made an Honorary Member of the Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh in 1998[8] and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 2002, and was awarded an honorary LL.D. degree by the University of Glasgow in 1995 and an honorary D.Univ. degree by the University of Stirling in 1998.[9]

She died at St Columba's Hospice, Edinburgh, on 25 December 2016.

Arms

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Lady Marion's helm and crest above her stall in St. Giles' Cathedral.
Coat of arms of Marion Fraser
Crest
A demi-female richly attired holding in her dexter hand at the shoulder a thistle slipped and leaved all Proper and in her sinister hand at the hip a fraise Argent.[10]
Escutcheon
Azure three fraises in pale Argent between two bears' heads couped and respectant of the last muzzled Gules.[11]

References

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  1. ^ "Lady Marion Fraser LT's Obituary on The Times". The Times. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  2. ^ a b "FRASER, Lady Marion Anne". Who's Who 2009, A & C Black, 2008; online edn. Oxford University Press. December 2008. Retrieved 30 May 2009.
  3. ^ a b c "University of Glasgow - Lady Marion Fraser - a tribute". University of Glasgow. 16 January 2017. Archived from the original on 1 February 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  4. ^ "Biography of Sir William Kerr Fraser". University Story. University of Glasgow. Retrieved 30 May 2009.
  5. ^ "FRASER, Sir William Kerr". Who's Who 2009, A & C Black, 2008; online edn. Oxford University Press. December 2008. Retrieved 30 May 2009.
  6. ^ "No. 54597". The London Gazette. 3 December 1996. p. 15995.
  7. ^ "Sacred Scotland - Scotland's Churches Scheme". Sacred Scotland - Scotland's Churches Scheme. Retrieved 30 May 2009.
  8. ^ "The Merchant Company, The City of Edinburgh, Honorary Members". Merchant Company of Edinburgh. Archived from the original on 7 January 2009. Retrieved 30 May 2009.
  9. ^ "Honorary Graduates of The University of Stirling - 1998 to 2007". University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  10. ^ "rest of the Day: Lady Marion Fraser LT". Court of the Lord Lyon. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  11. ^ "Lady Marion Fraser Lecture". Heraldry Society of Scotland. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
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