John Fuller FRS (1680 – 4 August 1745) was a British landowner, MP and Jamaican plantation owner. He was the eldest son of John Fuller of Tanners, Waldron, Sussex. He developed the Heathfield ironworks started by his father into a successful operation. He was elected a

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in 1704. In 1713 he was elected Member of Parliament for

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, sitting until 1715. He died in 1745. He had married Elizabeth, the daughter and coheiress of plantation owner

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of St. Catherine, Jamaica, whose Jamaican estate they inherited. They lived at Rose Hill, now called Brightling Park, in Brightling, Sussex and had 9 sons (3 of whom predeceased him) and 1 daughter. Rose Hill passed to his eldest son John jnr and the Jamaican plantation to his second son

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. When John jnr died 10 years later, Rose Hill and the foundry also passed to Rose.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fuller, John 1680 births 1745 deaths People from Heathfield, East Sussex Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1713–1715 Fellows of the Royal Society