Sir Thomas Trayton Fuller-Eliott-Drake, 1st Baronet (1785–1870) was a British Army officer. The Fuller-Eliott-Drake Baronetcy, of Nutwell Court,

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, was created in the

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on 22 August 1821 for Thomas Fuller-Eliott-Drake, grandson of the first

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, and grand-nephew of the last Drake baronet of Buckland. Originally surnamed simply Fuller, the first baronet had adopted the additional surnames Eliott and Drake upon his inheritance of

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and Nutwell Court from the second

in 1813. He was succeeded by his nephew Francis George Augustus Fuller. Fuller-Elliot-Drake was an officer in the

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, joining in 1804, and serving under Sir John Moore during the 1808 expedition to Sweden, and in the

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. Serving in the

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in 1809, Fuller-Elliot-Drake returned to the

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, where he was present at the Battles of

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, Fuentes d'Onor,

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, and San Munos, where he was severely wounded. He left the Peninsula in 1812.Moorsom, W.S. ''Historical Record of the Fifty-Second Regiment (Oxfordshire Light Infantry)'', London: Richard Bentley, 1860, p. 430 Fuller-Elliot-Drake was awarded the

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with two clasps. He was appointed

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in 1822. From 1838 to 1843 he had a London home at 4

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fuller-Elliot-Drake 1785 births 1870 deaths 52nd Regiment of Foot officers Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom British Army personnel of the Napoleonic Wars High sheriffs of Devon