Revd Henry FRAZER

1798 - 1839  (~ 40 years)

• Name	Henry FRAZER
  Title	Revd
  Born	Oct 1798	Waterford, Ireland
  Gender	Male
  Died	3 Aug 1839	Grahamstown, South Africa   [1]
  Person ID	I221	Irish in South Africa
  Last Modified	29 Nov 2019

  
  

• Sources

  [S1] MWS, Andries William De Villiers, (University of Witwatersrand). Educated: Trinity College, Dublin (BA). Ordained: [?] Career: Appointed as Colonial Chaplain, Simon's Town, and arrived at the Cape, 30 July 1831. `In 1831, the Rev. H. Frazer, with the help of ('the governor] Sir Lowry Cole and more especially his wife, Lady Frances Cole, contrived to raise funds to begin the construction of a church on the site of the Dutch East India Company's granaries. The building was completed in 1837 with labour supplied in large part by the Navy and Army. It was named St Frances as a compliment to Lady Cole whose help in fund raising was noteworthy. (The name was subsequently changed (1958) to St Francis of Assisi, who is more widely known" (Brock and Brock). Died: Grahamstown, on 3 August 1839. [Memorial in St. Francis Church, Simon's Town. JA Hewitt, Sketches of English Church History in South Africa from 1795-1848 (1887), p. 130. BB Brock and BG Brock (editors), Historical Simon's Town (1976), p. 173.]