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Person Code
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NA6765
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Forenames
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Alexander Campbell
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Surname
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Fraser
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1819-1914
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philosopher, professor
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Professor Alexander Campbell Fraser, DCL LL D, philosopher, was the son of Hugh Fraser, minister of Ardchattan and Maria Helen Campbell. He was educated at home and at fourteen he started to study for the ministry at Glasgow University, but for health reasons transfered to Edinburgh. When the disruption came he, like his father and teacher, sided with the seceders, and in 1844 he was ordained as a junior minister of the Free Church of Cramond. In 1846 he took the chair of Logic and Metaphysics at the theological college of the Free Church in Edinburgh, and in 1856 he was elected to the professorship at the University of Edinburgh a post which he held until 1891. Fraser was editor of North British Review, 1850-1857. He was Gifford Lecturer on Natural Theology in Edinburgh, 1894-1896. Fraser also acted as Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1859 and as the representative of the senatus in the university court from 1877. He married Jemima Gordon Dyce (d 1907) in 1850, and they had three sons and two daughters.
Fraser was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1903. Fraser was awarded Hon DCL, Oxford, 1883; Hon LL D, Princeton; 1856; Glasgow, 1871; Edinburgh, 1891; Aberdeen, 1906; and Hon Litt D, Dublin, 1902; FRS Edin, 1858; Fellow of the British Academy, 1903. His publications include: Berkeley's Life and Works, 1871; The Philosopy of Theism, 1895-1896; Biographia Philosphica, 1904; Essays in Philosophy, 1846-1856; Locke, in Philosophical Classics, 1890; Berkeley and Spiritual Realism, 1909.
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| GB233/Dep.208 | Professor A Campbell Fraser DCL LL.D | 1780-1931 | | GB237/Coll/255 | Lectures and Papers of Professor Alexander Campbell Fraser (1819-1914) | 1856-1901 | | GB247/MS Gen 505/22 | Alexander Campbell Fraser letter to Sir Robert Sangster Rait | 1903 |
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