Claud Fraser was born in London in 1890. Educated at Charterhouse he entered Westminster School of Art, where he studied under W. R. Sickert.

On the outbreak of the First World War he joined the British Army. Invalided out of the armed forces in 1916 he illustrated several books including Change (1919), The Beggar's Opera (1921), The Woodcutter's Dog (1921), The Lick of the Bean-Rows (1921), The Liar (1922) and Peacock Pie (1924).

Claud Fraser died in 1921.