FRASER, CLAUD LOVAT (189o-1921), British artist and designer, was born in London on May 15, 1890, and was educated at Charterhouse. He began to follow his father's pro fession as a solicitor in 1908, but abandoned this three years later for art. After working with Walter Sickert for a time, he exhibited in 1913, being responsible in the same year for the decoration of the Flying Fame chapbooks and broadsheets. He served in France with the Durham Light Infantry during 1915-16, but was gassed and invalided home. His gift for spirited design and lively colour, based to a great extent on 18th century conventions, de veloped rapidly, and he not only illustrated successfully many books, but exercised a rejuvenating influence on English stage designs by his production of The Beggar's Opera (1920), As You Like It (1920) and If (1921). A career of great promise was cut short by his death, June 18, 1921. See John Drinkwater and Albert Rutherston, Claud Lovat Fraser (1923).