Sir John Fuller, 1st Baronet

Sir John Fuller, 1st Baronet
Born 21 October 1864
Neston Park, Corsham, Wiltshire
Died 4 September 1915

Sir John Michael Fleetwood Fuller, 1st Baronet KCMG (21 October 1864 – 4 September 1915), was a British Liberal Party politician and colonial administrator.

Fuller was the eldest son of George Fuller, of Neston Park, Corsham, Wiltshire, and his wife Emily Georgina Jane, daughter of Sir Michael Hicks Beach, 8th Baronet, and was educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford. He unsuccessfully contested Parliament three times but in 1900 he was successfully returned for Westbury. He served under Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman as a Junior Lord of the Treasury from 1906 to 1907 and under Campbell-Bannerman and later H. H. Asquith as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household from 1907 to 1911.[1] He was created a Baronet, of Neston Park in Corsham in the County of Wiltshire, in 1910.[1] The following year Fuller resigned his seat in the House of Commons on his appointment as Governor of Victoria. He remained in this position until his resignation for health and family reasons in November 1913. He had been made a KCMG in 1911.

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.

References

  1. ^ a b Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (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.)

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Richard Chaloner
Member of Parliament for Westbury
1900 – 1911
Succeeded by
Geoffrey Howard
Political offices
Preceded by
Herbert Lewis
Joseph Pease
Freeman Freeman-Thomas
Cecil Norton
Junior Lord of the Treasury
1906 – 1907
With: Herbert Lewis
Joseph Pease
Cecil Norton
Succeeded by
Herbert Lewis
Joseph Pease
Cecil Norton
John Henry Whitley
Preceded by
Wentworth Beaumont
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
1907 – 1911
Succeeded by
Geoffrey William Algernon Howard
Government offices
Preceded by
Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael
Governor of Victoria
1911 – 1913
Succeeded by
Sir Arthur Stanley
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Neston Park)

1910 – 1915
Succeeded by
John Gerard Henry Fleetwood Fuller