Popular golfer, nurse and suffragist. Born in Edinburgh, one of five children of printer Patrick Neill Fraser (1830 - 1905), she joined Murrayfield Golf Club and played for Scotland every year from 1905 to 1914, with some considerable success. Neill Fraser was a trained nurse and, at the outbreak of the First World War, volunteered to serve at the Scottish Women's Hospital in Serbia, alongside the likes of Dr Elsie Inglis (1864 - 1917). She arrived at the hospital in December 1914 in the midst of a typhus epidemic and by the following March had succumbed to the disease. She lies buried in Chela Kula Military Cemetery. The Ladies' Golf Union created a fund in her memory to supply additional beds for the hospital.
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