Sir John Fuller, 1st Baronet

British Liberal politician and colonial administrator
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Quick Facts

IntroBritish Liberal politician and colonial administrator
PlacesUnited Kingdom Great Britain
wasPolitician Colonial administrator
Work fieldMilitary Politics
Gender
Male
Birth21 October 1864, Neston Park
Death4 September 1915Atworth (aged 50 years)
Politics:Liberal Party
The details

Biography

Sir John Michael Fleetwood Fuller, 1st Baronet KCMG (21 October 1864 – 4 September 1915) was a British Liberal Party politician and colonial administrator.
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. He was created a Baronet, of Neston Park in Corsham in the County of Wiltshire, in 1910. The following year Fuller resigned his seat in the House of Commons on his appointment as Governor of Victoria. He remained in this position until his resignation for health and family reasons in November 1913. He had been made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in the 1911 Coronation Honours.
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
PartyCandidateVotes%±
ConservativeSir John Poynder Dickson-Poynder3,684
LiberalJohn Michael Fleetwood Fuller3,455
Majority229
Turnout
Conservative holdSwing
General Election 1895: Bath
PartyCandidateVotes%±
ConservativeCharles Wyndham Murray3,445
Liberal UnionistEdmond Robert Wodehouse3,358
LiberalSir William Martin Conway2,917
LiberalJohn Michael Fleetwood Fuller2,865
Majority
Turnout
Conservative holdSwing
Salisbury by-election, 1897
PartyCandidateVotes%±
ConservativeAugustus Henry Eden Allhusen1,425
LiberalJohn Michael Fleetwood Fuller1,278
Majority147
Turnout
Conservative holdSwing
General Election 1900: Westbury
PartyCandidateVotes%±
LiberalJohn Michael Fleetwood Fuller4,52053.3
ConservativeRichard Godolphin Walmesley Chaloner3,96146.7
Majority5596.6
Turnout86.7
Liberal gain from ConservativeSwing
General Election 1906: Westbury
PartyCandidateVotes%±
LiberalJohn Michael Fleetwood Fuller5,26458.2+4.9
ConservativeLord Dunsany3,78841.8-4.9
Majority1,47616.4+9.8
Turnout89.4+2.7
Liberal holdSwing+4.9
General Election January 1910: Westbury
PartyCandidateVotes%±
LiberalJohn Michael Fleetwood Fuller5,279
ConservativeRobert Long4,525
Majority
Turnout
Liberal holdSwing
General Election December 1910: Westbury
PartyCandidateVotes%±
LiberalSir John Michael Fleetwood Fuller5,04154.8
ConservativeGeorge Llewellen Palmer4,15245.2
Majority8899.6
Turnout88.3
Liberal holdSwing

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