Sir John Michael Fleetwood Fuller, 1st Baronet, (21 October 1864 – 4 September 1915) was a British

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politician and colonial administrator.

Biography

Fuller was the eldest son of George Fuller, of

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, Wiltshire, and his wife Emily Georgina Jane, daughter of Sir Michael Hicks Beach, 8th Baronet, and was educated at

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and

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. He unsuccessfully contested Parliament three times but in 1900 he was successfully returned for Westbury. He served under

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as a Junior Lord of the Treasury from 1906 to 1907 and under Campbell-Bannerman and later

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from 1907 to 1911.Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''

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'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. (Online edition at
FULLER (UK) 1910, of Neston Park, Corsham, Wiltshire
', Debrett's Illustrated Baronetage, page B369, from Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage at www.exacteditions.com, subscription or library card required.), He was created a

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, of Neston Park in Corsham in the County of Wiltshire, in 1910. The following year Fuller resigned his seat in the

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on his appointment as

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. He remained in this position until his resignation for health and family reasons in November 1913. He had been appointed a

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in the

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. Fuller married Norah Jacintha, daughter of Charles Nicholas Paul Phipps, in 1898. They had two sons and four daughters. He died in September 1915, aged only 50, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son Gerard. Lady Fuller later remarried and died in 1935.

Electoral record

References

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Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fuller, John, Sir, 1st Baronet 1864 births 1915 deaths Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs 1906–1910 UK MPs 1910 UK MPs 1910–1918 People educated at Winchester College People from Corsham