John Fuller (c. 1679–1744) of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk was a British diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1728 to 1734 Fuller was the second, but eldest surviving son of

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, MP, merchant and mayor of Yarmouth, and his wife Rose Huntington, daughter of Richard Huntington, MP. He was educated at Colchester and Yarmouth, and was admitted at

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on 14 May 1695, aged 15. In about 1718, he was appointed Consul at Leghorn. In 1721, his father died, and in 1722 he resigned his post at Leghorn and returned to England. Fuller stood at Yarmouth at the

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challenging the Townshend-Walpole interest, but was unsuccessful. He was apparently bought off with a government seat at

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where he was returned as

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at a by-election on 29 February 1728. He voted against the Administration in all recorded divisions. He did not stand again at the

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. Fuller was probably unmarried and died on 22 March 1744.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fuller, John 1670s births 1744 deaths Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Plympton Erle British MPs 1727–1734 Year of birth uncertain