Donald Fraser (1912 - 1993): Cleric, Presbyterian
Donald Fraser was born in Glasgow, and worked for a railway company. He studied for the ministry of the United Free Presbyterian Church at Edinburgh, and was ordained in 1938. In 1949 he went to the Presbyterian Church in Ireland as Sabbath School Society organiser. He edited the Presbyterian Herald from 1966 to 1976, and was awarded a Doctorate of Divinity. He was a member of the Northern Ireland YMCA executive, the Northern Ireland Youth Employment Service Board and the Northern Ireland Orthopaedic Development Committee. In 1971 he was Moderator of East Belfast Presbytery, and in 1974, Moderator of the Synod of Belfast.
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