Hopes are high a public memorial service for a major Scottish political figure will take place next month.
News of Angus Tory peer Lord Peter Fraser’s sudden death on Saturday at his Carmyllie home saddened the legal and political fraternities on Sunday.
The funeral of the man who headed inquiries into the Lockerbie bombing and Holyrood building project takes place on Friday and The Courier understands a thanksgiving service will be held a fortnight later.
A spokesman for the family said: “The service for extended family and Lord Fraser’s burial will be on Friday and the service of thanksgiving looks like being on July 12 in Dundee.”
No further details of the service of thanksgiving have been released but it is understood a catalogue of famous names associated with Lord Fraser’s 30-year legal and political career will be invited.
Political contemporary Andrew Welsh, who received the Freedom of Angus last year, said he hopes the service will allow friends and compatriots of Lord Fraser to pay tribute in some way.
“All of our sympathies are with his family at this time,” said the former SNP politician, who campaigned across from Lord Fraser in the 1980s.
“Although we fought numerous elections on opposing political sides, I personally found Peter Fraser to be a good and fair opponent, whose contribution to the life of Angus will be missed.
“There are some things that transcend politics and this loss is one of them.”