Person Fuller; Rose (1708 - 1777); landowner and gun-founder Fuller Rose landowner and gun-founder 1708 - 1777 British Male 12 April 1708 17080412 Gerrard Street, London, England 07 May 1777 17770507 Burial: Waldron, East Sussex, England (15 May 1777)

Spanish Town, Jamaica (1736/7)

Politician; landowner; industrialist; plantation and slave owner; colonial official Astronomy Medicine 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) 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 Fellow 20/04/1732 24 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 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 12 April 1708 - 7 May 1777 NA6779 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB yes 6fa43615-1fd3-4cba-b94a-b8d9f9b8ea29