Landscape gardener and topographical writer. James Fraser was born in Edinburgh in 1793. He worked at Trinity College Botanic Garden in Dublin, and was head gardener to Frederick Bourne at Terenure, Co. Dublin, when he came to the notice of J.C. Loudon. The two men became friends. Loudon, who considered Fraser an 'excellent botanist and gardener as well as a man of general information', appointed him Irish correspondent of his Gardener's Magazine. Fraser set himself up as a professional landscape gardener in 1829 and supplemented his income by writing travel guides. He died in 1863 from complications arising from a chest cold at his house at 25 Westland Row and was buried at Harold's Cross Cemetery, Dublin.
Addresses: Work: 17 Dorset Street Lower, <=1839->=1847; 25 Westland Row, <=1853 until death.
Home: Delaford, Templeogue, <=1857 until death.
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References
All information in this entry not otherwise accounted for is from Edward Malins & Patrick Bowe, Irish Gardens and Demesnes from 1830(1980), 21-22, and Ray Desmond, Dictionary of British & Irish Botanists and horticulturalists (Natural History Museum, 1994), 262
Grave no. 3089.
From Thom's and Post Office directories.
13 work entries listed in chronological order for FRASER, JAMES
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CO. OFFALY, LOUGHTON (MONEYGALL) |
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1834 |
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JF advises Lord Bloomfield.
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A.P.W. Malcomson, The Clements Archive (Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2010), 391.
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CO. WEXFORD, SAUNDERSCOURT |
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1840ca |
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Landscape designed by Fraser for 4th Earl of Arran. |
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Edward Malins & Patrick Bowe, Irish Gardens and Demesnes from 1830(1980), 27-8
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CO. CORK, DRISHANE CASTLE |
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? |
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Pleasure-grounds designed by Fraser, for ?Thomas Somerville. |
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Edward Malins & Patrick Bowe, Irish Gardens and Demesnes from 1830(1980), 29
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CO. WEXFORD, BALLYHYLAND |
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? |
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Pleasure-grounds designed by Fraser, for ?John Howlin |
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Edward Malins & Patrick Bowe, Irish Gardens and Demesnes from 1830(1980), 29
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CO. LAOIS, BLANDSFORT |
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? |
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Pleasure-grounds designed by Fraser, for ?Loftus Henry Bland. |
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Edward Malins & Patrick Bowe, Irish Gardens and Demesnes from 1830(1980), 29
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CO. WATERFORD, CURRAGHMORE |
Date: |
? |
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Design of parterre and semicircular garden by Fraser, for Marchioness of Waterford. |
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Edward Malins & Patrick Bowe, Irish Gardens and Demesnes from 1830(1980), 35
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CO. LIMERICK, ADARE MANOR |
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? |
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Park renovated by JF, for Earl of Dunraven. |
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Edward Malins & Patrick Bowe, Irish Gardens and Demesnes from 1830(1980), 28
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CO. KILKENNY, CASTLE MORRES |
Date: |
? |
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Proposed design for park, for Lord Mountmorres. |
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Edward Malins & Patrick Bowe, Irish Gardens and Demesnes from 1830(1980), 28
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CO. KILKENNY, GOWRAN CASTLE |
Date: |
? |
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Proposed extension to park, for Lord Clifden. |
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Drawing in NLI; Edward Malins & Patrick Bowe, Irish Gardens and Demesnes from 1830(1980), 28
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CO. CORK, CASTLEMARTYR, CASTLE MARTYR |
Date: |
? |
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Garden designed by Fraser for 4th Earl of Shannon. |
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Edward Malins & Patrick Bowe, Irish Gardens and Demesnes from 1830(1980), 28
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CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, TERENURE PARK |
Date: |
? |
Nature: |
Design of grounds, for Frederick Bourne. |
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Edward Malins & Patrick Bowe, Irish Gardens and Demesnes from 1830(1980), 21-22, and Ray Desmond, Dictionary of British & Irish Botanists and horticulturalists (Natural History Museum, 1994), 262
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CO. DOWN, CLANDEBOYE HOUSE |
Date: |
? |
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Early 19th c. planting considered by Terence Reeves-Smyth to be the work of JF. |
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Marcus Patton, Bangor: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1999), 48
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Author |
Title |
Date |
Details |
Fraser, James |
Guide through Ireland |
1838 |
Dublin: W. Curry Jr & Co., 1838. (Further expanded editions, entitled Handbook for travellers in Ireland 1843, 1854, 1859.) |
Fraser, James |
Guide to the County of Wicklow |
1842 |
Dublin: Curry, jun., 1842. |
Fraser, James |
Handbook for the Lakes of Killarney |
1849 |
Dublin: J. McGlashan, 1849. |
Fraser, James |
Handbook for Dublin and its environs |
1853 |
Dublin: J. McGlashan, 1853. |