Richard Fuller (died 1782)
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Richard Fuller ('' c.'' 1713 – 2 January 1782) was an English
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Early life

Some sources say he was the third son of the Reverend Joseph Fuller, a Baptist minister of Harwell in
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and his wife Martha Hanson. More likely he was the third surviving son of Thomas Fuller, a landowner at FitzHarris outside Abingdon, then in
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, and his wife Hester Alder. This makes him the brother of the banker William Fuller and of Martha Fuller (1717–1805) who married the stationer George Flower (1715–1778), becoming the mother of
Benjamin Flower Benjamin Flower (1755 – 17 February 1829) was an English radical journalist and political writer, and a vocal opponent of his country's involvement in the early stages of the Napoleonic Wars. Early life He was born in London, the son of a pro ...
and Richard Flower as well as mother-in-law of the Reverend John Clayton.


Career

With Frazer Honywood in 1737 he became founding partner of a private bank in Lombard Street,
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, known initially as Atkins, Honeywood & Fuller. The firm moved to Birchin Lane about 1754 and to Cornhill about 1774. In 1746 it became Honeywood & Fuller and went through several name changes until at his death it was Richard Fuller, Sons & Vaughan. By 1891, when it was taken over, it was Fuller, Banbury, Nix & Co and has since become part of the
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. He inherited FitzHarris from his father and, as a Berkshire landowner, was chosen
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in 1754. Entering politics, at a by-election in 1764 he was elected unopposed as a Member of Parliament for
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in
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, filling the vacancy caused by Honywood's death. Changing seats, at the 1768 general election he was returned unopposed for Stockbridge in
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and held that seat until the 1774 general election.


Family

About 1755 he married Susanna Barnard (1735–1789) and together they had nine children. In 1768 he bought the estate called The Rookery at Westcott in
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, previously the home of the economist
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, and he and his wife lived there for the rest of their lives. In 1778, jointly with his brother William, he was executor of the will of his brother-in-law George Flower. He died on 2 January 1782 and his will of 11 October 1781 was proved on 29 January 1782.The National Archives; Kew, England; Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers; Class: PROB 11; Piece:1086 Gostling Quire 1-48 No 376 His memorial in the Independent Chapel at
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reads : ::« To the Memory of Richard Fuller Esq of the Rookery in this County who departed this life 2 January 1782 aged sixty nine years » Susanna survived him, dying on 11 April 1789. Of their children : :Richard Fuller entered the bank, married Frances Boulton and had five children. :Thomas Fuller was also made a partner in his father's bank, married Susannah Cromwell and in 1794 lived in Cornhill. :Lieutenant-General Sir Joseph Fuller, Knight Grand Cross of Hanover, (1771–1841) married Miranda Floyd and bought Highgate House at
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, which passed to his only child Juliana Rebecca (1816–1886), wife of Sir Hugh Purves-Hume-Campbell of Marchmont, 7th Baronet (1812–1894), MP for
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fuller, Richard 1710s births 1782 deaths English bankers 18th-century English landowners High sheriffs of Berkshire Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1761–1768 British MPs 1768–1774 People from Abingdon-on-Thames