Fraser, Sir, Stuart Mitford, 1864-1963

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Sir Stuart Fraser, KCSI, CIE, was a distinguished officer of the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India. Five years after joining the Indian Civil Service, he was appointed tutor to the Maharajas of Kolhapur and Bhavnagar, and later (1896-1902) was tutor and guardian to the Maharaja of Mysore. In 1904, when officiating Foreign Secretary during Lord Curzon's Viceroyalty, he was His Majesty's Commissioner to negotiate with the Chinese Government about the Anglo-Tibetan Convention of that year.

He spent five years as Resident of Mysore and Chief Commissioner of Coorg. He was then sent to Kashmir as a first-class Resident. During this period he toured the remote Himalayan District of Gilgit and the States of Hunza and Nagar. His last four years' service were as Resident at Hyderabad. After retirement in 1921, he became a Justice of the Peace and a County Councillor and Alderman in Hampshire for over twenty-three years.

(Extracted from Obituary, Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, LI (1964), p. 197.)