Person Fuller; John (1706 - 1755); ironmaster and gun-founder Fuller John ironmaster and gun-founder John Junior Jacky 1706 - 1755 British Male 08 February 1706 17060201 Rosehill, Brightling, Sussex, England 05 February 1755 17550205 Baptism: Brightling, Sussex, England (08 February 1706) Burial: Waldron, Sussex, England (12 February 1755)

Rosehill, Brightling, Sussex

Landowner; industrialist; politician; plantation and slave owner Education: Trinity College, University of Cambridge (matriculated 1723); Middle Temple (admitted 1724) Career: Managed the family estates and Heathfiled ironworks, which produced iron-pigs and ordnance (1745-1755); Justice of the Peace (1746); MP for Boroughbridge (1754-1755); family owned profitable sugar plantations in Jamaica which exploited enslaved people for labour 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 Rose Fuller (FRS 1732); married (1746) Elizabeth Dayrell; no children Fellow 09/03/1727 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; Venn; MT; Namier; 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 Notes: Proposed by William Sloane; Martin Folkes 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 1 Feb 1706 - 5 Feb 1755 NA6487 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB yes http://viaf.org/viaf/58262964 4c9f21d3-a3b3-4c39-8fa8-3feabe1ae2c9