Donald Fraser

Donald Fraser (1 June 1870 – 20 August 1933) was a Free Church of Scotland missionary in Africa and author of six non-fiction books about his almost three decades of work there. Biography Born in the town of Lochgilphead, Argyll, in western Scotland, Fraser was the fourth of eight children born to The Reverend William Fraser (1824–1892), minister of the Free Church of Scotland in Lochgilphead, and Violet Ferguson (1835–1888). His older brother was the architect William Fraser. In 1886, at age 16, Fraser began studies at the University of Glasgow but in 1891, before completing his degree, he entered the Free Church College in Glasgow (now Trinity College, Glasgow) to study for the ministry and was ordained in 1896. During the first half of the 1890s, Fraser played an instrumental role in the founding of the Great Britain branch of the Student Volunteer Movement (SVM), with which he served as traveling secretary, and the World Student Christian Federation.