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Sir John Fuller, 1st Baronet

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

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

Biography[edit]

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. AsquithasVice-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[edit]

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[edit]

• 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[edit]

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