Michael Fraser, Baron Fraser of Kilmorack

(Richard) Michael Fraser, Baron Fraser of Kilmorack Kt. CBE (28 October 1915 - 1 July 1996) was a British political administrator.

Fraser was educated at the Aberdeen Grammar School, Fettes College, and King’s College, Cambridge. During World War II, he served with the Royal Artillery, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He was appointed an MBE (Military) in 1945.[1]

After the war, Fraser joined the Conservative Research Department (CRD), serving as its Director between 1959 and 1964 and its Chairman between 1970 and 1974. He was Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party between 1964 and 1975. At the CRD, he turned down job applications from Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, on the grounds that they were "Communist agents"; both men were later unmasked as Soviet agents.[2]

Fraser was appointed CBE in 1955 for political services and knighted in 1962.[2][3] In 1974, he was made a life peer, as Baron Fraser of Kilmorack, of Rubislaw in the County of the City of Aberdeen.[4]

References

  1. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 37025. p. 1903. 6 April 1945.
  2. 1 2 Cosgrave, Patrick (4 July 1996). "Obituary: Lord Fraser of Kilmorack". The Independent.
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 42552. p. 2. 13 June 1974.
  4. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 46323. p. 6953. 13 June 1974.
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