#6661, Simon FRASER (15th Lord Lovat)

Lovat was the eldest of four sons and three daughters born to Thomas Alexander Fraser, 12th Lord Lovat and Hon. Charlotte Georgina, daughter of George William Jerningham, 8th Baron Stafford.

Among his siblings was Amelia Charlotte Fraser (wife of Charles Scott-Murray of Danesfield), Frances Giorgiana Fraser (wife of Sir Pyers Mostyn, 8th Baronet), Charlotte Henrietta Fraser (wife of Sir Matthew Sausse, the Chief Justice of Bombay), Alexander Edward Fraser (a Lt.-Col. in the Scots Guards who fought in the Crimean War and married Georgiana Mary Heneage, only daughter of George Fieschi Heneage of Hainton Hall), George Edward Stafford Fraser (who died unmarried), and Henry Thomas Fraser (a Colonel in the 1st Battalion Scots Guards who also died unmarried).

He succeeded his father in 1875. While legally the 13th Lord Lovat he was often considered in Jacobite peerage to be the 15th Lord Lovat. He resided at Beaufort Castle, and was the 22nd Chief MacShimidh of the Clan Fraser of Lovat.

He served as a Lieutenant colonel of the 2nd Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders Militia, and Lord Lieutenant of Inverness between 1873 and 1887. From 1883 to 1887, he served as aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria.