{"id":2898,"date":"2023-12-28T08:21:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T08:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.cdit.live\/swathithirunal\/?p=2898"},"modified":"2024-02-23T05:21:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T05:21:55","slug":"general-j-s-fraser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swathithirunal.in\/?p=2898","title":{"rendered":"General J.S. Fraser"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>General J.S. Fraser<\/h2>\n<p><strong>British Resident 1836?-1840?<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Resident Colonel and afterwards General J.S. Fraser was a gentleman who delighted in the patronage of sciences and learning, also took a great interest in the spread of English education in Travancore. He seems to have played a role in encouraging Swathi Thirunal in establishing the Free School (which later became the University College). The same seems to be the case with the Observatory also. Sangunny menon writes: The Trivandrum Observatory owned its origin in \u201c1836, to the enlightened views of His Highness \u201cRama Vurmah, then reigning Rajah of Travancore, \u201cand to the encouragement given to them by the late \u201cGeneral Stuart Fraser then representing the British\u201d Government at Trivandrum. Fraser seems to have also played an advisory role in organisation of an experimental engineering department, and Lieutenant and Superintendent of Irrigation and other important works at Nanjenaud and Trivandrum, under the general supervision of the visiting Engineer Lieutenant Horsely. It is also known that this very able Engineer\u2019s literacy work \u201cMemories of Travancore\u201d was written at the request of the Resident, Colonel Fraser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General J.S. Fraser British Resident 1836?-1840? The Resident Colonel and afterwards General J.S. Fraser was a gentleman who delighted in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative-contacts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swathithirunal.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swathithirunal.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swathithirunal.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swathithirunal.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swathithirunal.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swathithirunal.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5570,"href":"https:\/\/www.swathithirunal.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions\/5570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swathithirunal.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swathithirunal.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swathithirunal.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}