Sir John Fuller, 1st Baronet

Sir John Michael Fleetwood Fuller, 1st Baronet, KCMG (21 October 1864 – 4 September 1915) was a British Liberal Party politician and colonial administrator.

Sir John Fuller Bt KCMG
13th Governor of Victoria
In office 24 May 1911 – 24 November 1913
Monarch	George V
Premier	John Murray (1911–12) William Watt (1912–13)
Preceded by	Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael
Succeeded by	Sir Arthur Stanley
Personal details
Born	(1864-10-21)21 October 1864 Neston Park, Corsham, Wiltshire
Died	4 September 1915(1915-09-04) (aged 50) Atworth, Wiltshire
Political party	Liberal Party
Parent	George Fuller
Alma mater	Winchester College Christ Church, Oxford

Biography

Fuller was the eldest son of George Fuller, of Neston Park, Corsham, Wiltshire, and his wife Emily Georgina Jane, daughter of Sir Michael Hicks Beach, 8th Baronet, and was educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford.

He unsuccessfully contested Parliament three times but in 1900 he was successfully returned for Westbury. He served under Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman as a Junior Lord of the Treasury from 1906 to 1907 and under Campbell-Bannerman and later H. H. Asquith as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household from 1907 to 1911.^[1] He was created a Baronet, of Neston Park in Corsham in the County of Wiltshire, in 1910.^[1][2]

The following year Fuller resigned his seat in the House of Commons on his appointment as Governor of Victoria.^[3] He remained in this position until his resignation for health and family reasons in November 1913. He had been appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1911 Coronation Honours.^[4]

Fuller married Norah Jacintha, daughter of Charles Nicholas Paul Phipps, in 1898. They had two sons and four daughters. He died in September 1915, aged only 50, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son Gerard. Lady Fuller later remarried and died in 1935.

Electoral record

General election 1892: Chippenham ^[5][6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir John Poynder Dickson-Poynder	3,684
	Liberal	John Michael Fleetwood Fuller	3,455
Majority			229
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1895: Bath ^[5][6][7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles Wyndham Murray	3,445
	Liberal Unionist	Edmond Robert Wodehouse	3,358
	Liberal	Sir William Martin Conway	2,917
	Liberal	John Michael Fleetwood Fuller	2,865
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

1897 Salisbury by-election^[5][6][7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Augustus Henry Eden Allhusen	1,425
	Liberal	John Michael Fleetwood Fuller	1,278
Majority			147
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1900: Westbury ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Michael Fleetwood Fuller	4,520	53.3
	Conservative	Richard Godolphin Walmesley Chaloner	3,961	46.7
Majority			559	6.6
Turnout				86.7
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

General election 1906: Westbury ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Michael Fleetwood Fuller	5,264	58.2	+4.9
	Conservative	Lord Dunsany	3,788	41.8	−4.9
Majority			1,476	16.4	+9.8
Turnout				89.4	+2.7
	Liberal hold		Swing	+4.9

General election January 1910: Westbury^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Michael Fleetwood Fuller	5,279
	Conservative	Robert Long	4,525
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing

General election December 1910: Westbury ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sir John Michael Fleetwood Fuller	5,041	54.8
	Conservative	George Palmer	4,152	45.2
Majority			889	9.6
Turnout				88.3
	Liberal hold		Swing

Coat of arms of Sir John Fuller, 1st Baronet

Crest Issuant from a coronet flory Or a lion’s head per pale Azure and Ermine. Escutcheon Per pale nebuly Azure and Ermine two bars counterchanged over all six martlets two two and two Or. Supporters On the dexter a lion reguardant Proper and on the sinister a wolf reguardant Argent each gorged with a collar Or pendent therefrom an escutcheon per pale nebuly Azure and Or charged with six martlets counterchanged.[9]

References

1. Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. (Online edition at FULLER (UK) 1910, of Neston Park, Corsham, Wiltshire, Debrett's Illustrated Baronetage, page B369, from Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage at www.exacteditions.com, subscription or library card required.), ^{[page needed]}
2. "No. 28400". The London Gazette. 26 July 1910. p. 5391.
3. "No. 28475". The London Gazette. 14 March 1911. p. 2147.
4. "No. 28505". The London Gazette (Supplement). 19 June 1911. p. 4593.
5. British Parliamentary Election Results 1885–1918, FWS Craig
6. The Liberal Year Book, 1907
7. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
8. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
9. Burke's Peerage. 1949.

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page: The Baronetage of England, Ireland, Nova Scotia, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Fletcher-Vane to Fytche at the Wayback Machine (archived 27 February 2006)
• Lundy, Darryl. "FAQ". The Peerage.^{[unreliable source]}
• Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir John Fuller

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Richard Chaloner	Member of Parliament for Westbury 1900–1911	Succeeded by Geoffrey Howard
Political offices
Preceded by Herbert Lewis Joseph Pease Freeman Freeman-Thomas Cecil Norton	Junior Lord of the Treasury 1906–1907 With: Herbert Lewis Joseph Pease Cecil Norton	Succeeded by Herbert Lewis Joseph Pease Cecil Norton John Henry Whitley
Preceded by Wentworth Beaumont	Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 1907–1911	Succeeded by Geoffrey William Algernon Howard
Government offices
Preceded by Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael	Governor of Victoria 1911–1913	Succeeded by Sir Arthur Stanley
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baronet (of Neston Park) 1910–1915	Succeeded by John Gerard Henry Fleetwood Fuller