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Authorised form of nameFuller; John (1680 - 1745); ironmaster and gun-founder
Dates1680 - 1745
NationalityBritish
Date of birth28 July 1680
Place of deathRosehill, Brightling, Sussex, England
Date of death04 August 1745
Dates and placesBaptism:
Waldron, Sussex, England (28 July 1680)
Burial:
Waldron, Sussex, England (10 August 1745)
OccupationLandowner; industrialist; politician; plantation and slave owner
ActivityCareer:
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
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election30/11/1704
Age at election24
RelationshipsMarried (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)
SourcesSources:
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 Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/53334571
Royal Society codeNA3513
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
DM/5/101A list of benefactors to the Museum, to the value of £5 or upwards at one time c.1737
EL/F2/34Letter, from John Fuller to Hans Sloane23 May 1738
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