'Sir Augustus S. Frazer, Knight Commander of the Bath. Colonel of the Royal Horse Artillery and Director of the Royal Laboratory', 1820 (c)

Lithograph, 1820 (c).

Sir Augustus Simon Frazer (1776-1835) depicted wearing a Royal Horse Artillery uniform and the insignia of the Order of the Bath. The portrait is from a larger print which features Frazer standing next to a damaged artillery piece in a scene which is probably meant to represent the Battle of San Sebastian in 1813 where Frazer was commended for his actions in directing effective artillery fire.

Frazer was educated in Edinburgh and entered the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich in 1790. He served in Flanders with the Royal Artillery in 1799 and participated in the unsuccessful expedition to take Buenos Aires in 1807. Frazer served under Sir Arthur Wellesley in the Peninsular War (1808-1814) and was present at the Battles of Salamanca in 1812 and Vitoria in 1813. By the end of the campaign he had risen to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.

Frazer commanded the Horse Artillery during the Waterloo campaign of 1815. After the Napoleonic Wars ended, Frazer was appointed the Director of the Royal Laboratory at Woolwich. He died in 1835.