Rose FullerFRS (12 April 1708 – 7 May 1777) was a West Indies plantation owner and politician who sat in theHouse of Commons from 1756 to 1777.
Fuller was the second son ofJohn Fuller FRS, ofBrightling,Sussex, and his wife Elizabeth Rose, daughter ofFulke Rose ofJamaica. His elder brother was the MPJohn Fuller Jr. He studied medicine atCambridge University and was also a student atLeyden in the Netherlands. He graduatedMD and became aFellow of the Royal Society in 1732.[1]
Fuller went to Jamaica before 1735, where he took over the family plantation from his father. He was elected to the Assembly in 1735 and called to the council in 1737. He was made a judge of the supreme courts but as a result of disputes with the governorEdward Trelawny he was removed from the council and the bench and returned to England in 1749. He was back in Jamaica in around 1752 and was appointedChief Justice by the next governorCharles Knowles. However he was in dispute with Knowles and returned to England on the death of his brother there, whose estate, includingRose Hill (now known as Brightling Park), he inherited.[2]
Fuller was aMember of Parliament forNew Romney from 1756 to 1761, forMaidstone from 1761 to 1768, and forRye from 1768 to 1777.[3]
On 26 April 1737 Fuller married Ithamar Mill, daughter of Richard Mill of Jamaica.[2] She died in Jamaica on 22 April 1738 at the age of seventeen. He died childless on 7 May 1777, and was buried at Waldron, Sussex, on 15 May 1777.[1] His Sussex estate and foundry and Jamaican plantation passed to his nephewMad Jack Fuller of Brightling, Sussex.
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forMaidstone 1761–1768 With:William Northey | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forRye 1768–1777 With:John Norris 1768–1774 Middleton Onslow 1774–1775 Hon. Thomas Onslow 1775–1777 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forNew Romney 1756–1761 With:Sir Francis Dashwood, Bt | Succeeded by |
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