Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Lonsdale

William Jocelyn Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Lonsdale CH CBE (30 August 1897 – 19 December 1974), known as Ian Fraser, was a British Conservative Party politician, a Governor of the BBC, a successful businessman and the first person to be awarded a life peerage under the Life Peerages Act 1958.

Fraser was blinded in World War I and became Chairman of St Dunstan's, a charity for blind servicemen.

Fraser was the son of William Percy Fraser, a businessman of South Africa, who played a role in the development of Johannesburg. He was born in Eastbourne, England but spent his early years in South Africa. He returned to England and was educated at St Cyprian's School Eastbourne and Marlborough College. He went to Royal Military Academy Sandhurst at the start of World War I and in the spring of 1916, he was sent out to join the army in France where he was a Captain in the King's Shropshire Light Infantry. At the Battle of the Somme on 23 July 1916, a German bullet blinded him. He was sent back to England to the Officers Ward of the London General Hospital and when the bandages were finally removed it was found that he had lost the sight of both eyes.

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