Sir John Fuller, 1st Baronet

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Sir John Michael Fleetwood Fuller, 1st Baronet, Template:Postnominals (21 October 1864 – 4 September 1915) was a British Liberal Party politician and colonial administrator.

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. 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 appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George 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

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

General election 1895: Bath

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

1897 Salisbury by-election

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

General election 1900: Westbury

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		John Michael Fleetwood Fuller	4,520	53.3
		Richard Godolphin Walmesley Chaloner	3,961	46.7
Majority			559	6.6
Turnout				86.7
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General election 1906: Westbury

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

General election January 1910: Westbury

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

General election December 1910: Westbury

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

References

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• Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition

External links

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