sentences:  In 1974 he was appointed to the Privy Council, and on 13 January 1975 was created a life peer with the title Baron Fraser of Tullybelton, of Bankfoot in the County of Perth, and took the office of Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.Fraser was a very active member of the House of Lords and dealt primarily with issues of further development of the administration of justice.Even in his retirement, he was a chairman of the University Commission on the reform of higher education.