Person Fuller; John (1680 - 1745); ironmaster and gun-founder Fuller John ironmaster and gun-founder 1680 - 1745 British Male 28 July 1680 1680 Rosehill, Brightling, Sussex, England 04 August 1745 17540804 Baptism: Waldron, Sussex, England (28 July 1680) Burial: Waldron, Sussex, England (10 August 1745)

Rosehill, Brightling, Sussex

Landowner; industrialist; politician; plantation and slave owner 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 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) Fellow 30/11/1704 24 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 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 1680 - 04 Aug 1745 NA3513 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB yes http://viaf.org/viaf/53334571 07fafaf5-3c1c-49e3-b145-286f8a5a6a47