| Authorised form of name | Fuller; John (1680 - 1745); ironmaster and gun-founder |
| Dates | 1680 - 1745 |
| Nationality | British |
| Date of birth | 28 July 1680 |
| Place of death | Rosehill, Brightling, Sussex, England |
| Date of death | 04 August 1745 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Baptism:
Waldron, Sussex, England (28 July 1680)
Burial:
Waldron, Sussex, England (10 August 1745) |
| Occupation | Landowner; industrialist; politician; plantation and slave owner |
| Activity | Career:
MP for Sussex (1713-1715); produced pig-iron and ordnance at the Heathfield furnace on the family's Brightling estate and owned a forge at Burwash; on marriage to Elizabeth Rose received a large fortune in the form of Jamaican sugar plantations owned by his wife's family, which used enslaved people for labour
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 30/11/1704 |
| Age at election | 24 |
| Relationships | Married (1703) Elizabeth, daughter of Fulke Rose of Jamaica and stepdaughter of Sir Hans Sloane (FRS 1685); father of John Fuller (FRS 1727) and of Rose Fuller (FRS 1732) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; UCL LBS
References:
'Gentleman's Magazine' 1745, p444
Crossley, Richard and Saville, David (1991), 'The Fuller Letters, 1728-1755: Guns, Slaves and Finance', Sussex Record Society (Lewes)
'Rose Fuller', Legacies of British Slave-ownership database, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146649557 [accessed 3rd July 2020]
AssocMaterial:
Family's estate furnace account books and correspondence at East Sussex Record Office
Notes:
Proposed by Sir Hans Sloane, his father in law |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/53334571 |
| Code | NA3513 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| DM/5/101 | A list of benefactors to the Museum, to the value of £5 or upwards at one time | c.1737 |
| EL/F2/34 | Letter, from John Fuller to Hans Sloane | 23 May 1738 |