FRASER, JAMES BAILLIE (1783-1856), Scottish trav eller and author, was born at Reelick in Inverness. He went to India early in life, and in 1815 made a tour of exploration in the Himalayas. He was appointed to look after the exiled Persian princes, Reza Kuli Mirza and Nejeff Kuli Mirza, while they were in England, and returned with them as far as Constantinople. Sent to Persia on a diplomatic mission he travelled through Asia Minor to Teheran on horseback. In 1823 he married a daughter of Lord Woodhouselee. He died at Reelick in Jan. 1856. Some of the astronomical observations taken on his journeys were of great service to the cartography of Asia. He wrote accounts of his travels and stories of Eastern life, his most important works being published between 1820 and 1842.