# 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.

## 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 | Party | Candidate | Votes |
| | Conservative | Sir John Poynder Dickson-Poynder | 3,684 |
| | Liberal | John Michael Fleetwood Fuller | 3,455 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 229 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing |
General election 1895: Bath :
| Party | 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 | Majority | Majority | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing |
1897 Salisbury by-election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes |
| | Conservative | Augustus Henry Eden Allhusen | 1,425 |
| | Liberal | John Michael Fleetwood Fuller | 1,278 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 147 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing |
General election 1900: Westbury :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Liberal | John Michael Fleetwood Fuller | 4,520 | 53.3 |
| | Conservative | Richard Godolphin Walmesley Chaloner | 3,961 | 46.7 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 559 | 6.6 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 86.7 |
| | Liberal gain from Conservative | Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | |
General election 1906: Westbury :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal | John Michael Fleetwood Fuller | 5,264 | 58.2 | +4.9 |
| | Conservative | Lord Dunsany | 3,788 | 41.8 | −4.9 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 1,476 | 16.4 | +9.8 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 89.4 | +2.7 |
| | Liberal hold | Liberal hold | Swing | +4.9 | |
General election January 1910: Westbury :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes |
| | Liberal | John Michael Fleetwood Fuller | 5,279 |
| | Conservative | Robert Long | 4,525 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | |
| | Liberal hold | Liberal hold | Swing |
General election December 1910: Westbury :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Liberal | Sir John Michael Fleetwood Fuller | 5,041 | 54.8 |
| | Conservative | George Palmer | 4,152 | 45.2 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 889 | 9.6 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 88.3 |
| | Liberal hold | Liberal hold | Swing | |
Coat of arms of Sir John Fuller, 1st Baronet :
* CrestIssuant from a coronet flory Or a lion’s head per pale Azure and Ermine.
* EscutcheonPer pale nebuly Azure and Ermine two bars counterchanged over all six martlets two two and two Or.
* SupportersOn 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.