Sir John Fuller, 1st Baronet
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Sir John Fuller, 1st Baronet KCMG |
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| 13th Governor of Victoria | |
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In office 24 May 1911 – 24 November 1913 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| Premier |
John Murray (1911–12) William Watt (1912–13) |
| Preceded by | Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael |
| Succeeded by | Sir Arthur Stanley |
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| Born |
21 October 1864 Neston Park, Corsham, Wiltshire |
| Died | 4 September 1915 (aged 50) Atworth, Wiltshire |
| Political party | Liberal Party |
| Parents | George Fuller |
| Alma mater |
Winchester College Christ Church, Oxford |
Sir John Michael Fleetwood Fuller, 1st Baronet KCMG (21 October 1864 – 4 September 1915) was a British Liberal Party politician and colonial administrator.
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 made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in the 1911 Coronation Honours.
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