Sir Andrew Fraser served in the Central Provinces for around 30 years as an Indian Civil Servant. Later in 1897, he was knighted with the Companion of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India (CSI) and was appointed as a Knight Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India (KCSI) in the year 1902. Fraser was eventually promoted to the ranks of the Chief Commissioner of Central Provinces in the year 1899 and was later in 1902, he was appointed as the President of Police Commission. Sir Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser, KCSI was appointed as the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal in 1903. The Bengal Presidency originally comprised east and west Bengal and was a colonial region of the British Empire in India. The region included the territories of undivided Bengal like West Bengal, Tripura, Orissa, Meghalaya, Bihar, Assam and modern Bangladesh. He was preceded by James Bourdillon in the post of the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal. Fraser held the designation of Lieutenant Governor of the Western province of Bengal even after the Partition of Bengal in the year 1905. But his participation in the planning of partition of Bengal made him unpopular amongst the nationalist agitators. Moreover an assassination attempt was also made in the year 1907 by derailing his train. In November 1908, another failed attempt was made to assassinate Lieutenant Governor Sir Andrew Fraser. He was succeeded by Sir Lancelot Hare in the year 1906. Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser, KCSI wrote and published several book such as "Among Indian Rajahs and Ryots" in 1909 and "India under Curzon and After" in 1911. He died on 26 February 1919. |