Marion Fraser

Lady Marion Anne Fraser LT (née Forbes; 17 October 1932 – 25 December 2016) was a Scottish music educator.

Fraser was the daughter of Elizabeth Taylor Watt and Robert Forbes. She was attended school in Glasgow at Hutchesons' Girls' Grammar School, going on to the University of Glasgow in 1950, to study for an MA. While a student at the University, she was elected President of the Queen Margaret Union. She then attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama where she studied piano.

In 1956, she married William Kerr Fraser, a former President of the Glasgow University Students' Representative Council and at the time a junior civil servant at the Scottish Office. He went on to become Permanent Secretary there, and later Principal and then Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. The couple had four children, three sons and one daughter.

Fraser worked as a music teacher and became Director of St Mary's Music School in Edinburgh from 1989 to 1995, as well as being Founding Chair of the Friends of the Royal Scottish Academy from 1986–89, a governor of the former Laurel Bank School for Girls from 1988 to 1995 and a Director of Scottish Opera from 1990-1994. In 1996, shortly after stepping down as Director of St. Mary's, she was created a Lady of the Order of the Thistle. Her husband had been created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1979 (and subsequently elevated within the order to Knight Grand Cross), entitling her to be addressed as Lady Fraser, however she now became Lady Marion Fraser in her own right.

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