John Fuller
John Fuller (born February 20, 1757 in North Stoneham , Hampshire , † April 11, 1834 in London ) was an English businessman, politician and patron of the arts and sciences. He was the founder of the Fuller Professorship and the Fuller Medal of the Royal Institution of Great Britain and a patron of William Turner .
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John Fuller was the third child of Reverend Henry Fuller (1713–1761) and his wife Frances Fuller (1725 / 6–1778). He came from an important family of iron masters in Sussex who also owned an extensive sugar plantation in Jamaica . Fuller was educated at Eton College from 1767 to 1774 . After the death of his uncle Rose Fuller on May 7, 1777, he inherited the family property and settled in his late uncle's house in Brightling .
From 1780 to 1784 Fuller was a Member of Parliament for Southampton and from 1801 to 1812 for Sussex .
In 1818 Fuller loaned the Royal Institution of Great Britain £ 1,000 (around £ 80,562 today), which he later waived. In 1828 he founded the Fuller Medal of the Royal Institution and in early 1833 he endowed the Fuller Professorship in Chemistry with an amount of 10,000 pounds (around 1,089,528 pounds today), which was followed a year later by a professorship in Physiology and Comparative Anatomy. The first two Fuller Professors were Michael Faraday and Peter Mark Roget .
Fuller, who was considered very eccentric, was buried in a pyramidal mausoleum about three feet high in the Brightling cemetery.
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literature
- JPJ Entract: Fuller, John (1757-1834). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Volume 21: Freud – Gibberd. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861371-7 , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of May 2008, accessed September 17, 2012.
- Mark Antony Lower: The Worthies of Sussex: Biographical Sketches of the most Eminent Natives or Inhabitants of the County, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time . Bacon, Lewes 1865.
- Joshua Wilson (Ed.): A Biographical Index to the Present House of Commons . Phillips et al., London [1808].
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- Fuller's Pyramid in Brightling Cemetery
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Fuller, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English businessman, politician and patron of the arts and sciences |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1757 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | North Stoneham , Hampshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1834 |
| Place of death | London |