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unusual facts about Harold Fraser-Simson


Harold Fraser-Simson

Fraser-Simson is also known for his many settings of children's verse by A. A. Milne and Kenneth Grahame, including the music for a children's play based on the latter's The Wind in the Willows entitled Toad of Toad Hall (1929), which was successful and enjoyed many revivals.


Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women

Louisa Stevenson and Margaret Houldsworth were leading figures in raising funds for the Masson Hall (named to honour Professor Masson's support) which opened in 1897 with accommodation and a library, overseen by the warden, Frances Simson, one of those first eight women graduates.

Harold Fraser

Harold John Fraser (1893–1975), lawyer and politician in Saskatchewan, Canada

Harry L. Fraser (unclear if this was short for Harold), film director

Harry Pollard (1889–1962), born Harold Fraser, best known as Snub Pollard, an Australian-born silent movie comedian, popular in the 1920s

John Caswell

He was acquainted with the Scottish mathematician Robert Simson and provided a supporting testimonial when Simson was under consideration for appointment as Professor of Mathematics at the University of Glasgow.

Sampson Simson

Sampson Simson (born 1780, died 1857) was an American philanthropist most remembered as "the father of Mount Sinai Hospital" and as benefactor, posthumously, to the North American Relief Society for Indigent Jews in Jerusalem, Palestine.


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