Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Fraser, John (d.1849)
FRASER or FRAZER, JOHN (d. 1849), poet, born at Birr, King's County, about 1809, was by occupation a cabinet-maker, but employed his leisure in literary studies. He wrote, under the nom de plume of J. de Dean, a considerable quantity of sentimental and patriotic verse of no great merit. He died at Dublin in 1849.
[Hayes's Ballads of Ireland (where some of his effusions are collected).]