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 Memorials of Old Haileybury College
| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Benda Cook | | Comment | Publication Date: 1894
Author: F. C. Danvers, Sir M Monier -Williams, Sir S. C. Bayley, P. Wigram, the late Brand Sapte, and many contributors.
Publisher Constable & Co.: Westminster
British Library: OIR 354.54 Held in the Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections.
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| | No. | 288 |  | Surname | Fraser | | | Christian Names | Simon | | | Dates at Haileybury | 1819-21 | | | 2nd Term | Mathematics, Persian Prizes | | | Presidency | Bengal  | | | Career in India | 1821-57 | | | Place of Death | Killed at Delhi | | | Date of Death | 1857 May [11] | | | Final Appointment 1 | Agent to Governor-General in Bundelkhand 1836; Judge of Mainpuri 1844; Commissioner of Meerut 1854; | | | Final Appointment 2 | Commissioner of Delhi 1855 | | | Mutiny Service | Commissioner of Dehli. About 9 a.m. on Monday, May 11, information reached Fraser that four troops of Cavalry and two Regiments of Infantry, which had mutineed at Meerut, were crossing the Jumna bridge of boats, having plundered and burnt the toll-house. The Commissioner's house and office were in Ludlow Castle, a short distance outside the Kashmir Gate. He determined to go into the city at once, and was on the point of starting when LeBas, the Judge, and Hutchinson, the Magistrate, drove up, and after conferring the three drove in togther. Fraser had the gate closed and was about to enter the Palace when a trooper of the 3rd Cavalry rode at him to cut him down. Fraser seized a musket from the guard and shot him. He then entered the Palace, had the main gate shut, and went up to the quarters of Captain Douglas, Commandant of the Palace Guard, who resided with his family above the Lahore Gate of the Palace. In this room were the Rev. Mr. Jennings, his daughter, Miss Clifford, Mrs. Douglas, and her children. Captain Douglas, who had just been attacked by the King's khasbardars, staggered in and fell insensible. On Fraser seeing the state of affairs and the lamentable condition of his assistant he left, and went downstairs unarmed. A mounted trooper of the 3rd Cavalry was outside, calling on the people to open the gate. The Commissioner upbraided him in severe terms, and was returning upstairs to procure arms when Khalidad Khan, an Afghan khasbardar of the King's guard, coming up behind wounded him very severely on the head and face. Fraser fell and was then and there killed by the Afghan. |
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