Authorised form of name | Fuller; Rose (1708 - 1777); landowner and gun-founder |
Dates | 1708 - 1777 |
Nationality | British |
Date of birth | 12 April 1708 |
Place of death | Gerrard Street, London, England |
Date of death | 07 May 1777 |
DatesAndPlaces | Burial: Waldron, East Sussex, England (15 May 1777) |
Occupation | Politician; landowner; industrialist; plantation and slave owner; colonial official |
Research field | Astronomy |
Medicine |
Activity | Education: Studied medicine at Leiden (1729-1732); Trinity College, University of Cambridge, matriculated (1725), MD (1732) Career: Sent to Jamaica to manage the family sugar plantations and the enslaved people who worked them (1733-1755); Jamaica Council (1737-1740); Jamaica Assembly (1735-1737,1740-1753); Jusge, SUpremem Court Jamaica (1737-1746); Chief Justice of Jamaica (1753); inherited his family estates in Sussex on the death of his older brother John Fuller junior (1755) and returned to England to manage the estates including the Heathfield furnace which produced iron-pigs and ordnance; MP for New Romney (1756-1761); MP for Maidstone (1761-1768); MP for Rye (1768-1777)
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 20/04/1732 |
Age at election | 24 |
Relationships | Son of John Fuller of Brightling, Sussex (FRS 1704) and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Fulke Rose of Jamaica and step-daughter of Sir Hans Sloane (FRS 1685); brother of John Fuller (FRS 1727); married (1737) Ithamar Mill of St Katherine's Jamaica |
Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; UCL LBS References: 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 |
Code | NA6779 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
EL/F2/37 | Extract of a letter, from Rose Fuller to Hans Sloane, dated at Spanish Town | 1736 |
EC/1732/02 | Fuller, Rose: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 20 April 1732 |