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9 unusual facts about Ian Fraser


Canberra and South East Region Environment Centre

Many prominent environmentalists, environmental practitioners and academics have been associated with CASEREC over the years, including Professor Steve Dovers(ANU), former ACT MLA Kerrie Tucker, Professor Valerie Brown (ANU), the late philosopher Dr Val Plumwood, naturalist and historian Ian Fraser, Dr Robin Tennant-Wood (University of Canberra), Professor Janis Birkeland (Queensland University of Technology) and ZeroWaste's Gerry Gillespie.

Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Lonsdale

Fraser was the son of William Percy Fraser, a businessman of South Africa, who played a role in the development of Johannesburg.

Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Tullybelton

He took the title Baron Fraser of Tullybelton, of Bankfoot in the County of Perthshire.

Ian Fraser was born in Glasgow on 3 February 1911, the only child of Alexander Reid Fraser and his wife Margaret Russell MacFarlane.

He died on 17 February 1989 in a car accident on the M90 motorway between Perth and Edinburgh during a snow storm.

Margaret McJannett

- Endangered plants and animals in the ACT, Ian Fraser and Margaret McJannett, Conservation Council of the South-East Region and Canberra, Canberra, 1996.

Above the Cotter - A driver's and walker's guide to the North Brindabellas, Ian Fraser and Margaret McJannett, Canberra and South-East Region Environment Centre, Canberra, 1991 ISBN 0-646-04309-9

Over the Hills and Tharwa Way - Eastern Namadgi National Park - A driver's and walker's guide, Ian Fraser and Margaret McJannett, Canberra and South-East Region Environment Centre, Canberra, 1994 ISBN 0-646-19029-6

Treasures of the Underworld

Ian Fraser the Commissioner at the NZ Expo said We were overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of the response....



see also

Benllech

Lemmy Kilmister, born Ian Fraser Kilmister, lead singer, bassist and guitarist of the band Motörhead, lived here from the age of 10 to the age of 16 (1956–1962).

Ovingdean

Just outside the historic boundary of Ovingdean is Ian Fraser House, better known as St Dunstan's, a famous residential and rehabilitation centre for blind ex-servicemen.