Augustus Fuller (MP)

{{Short description|British Conservative politician}}

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|name = Augustus Fuller

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|office = Member of Parliament
for East Sussex

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|term_start = 12 July 1841

|term_end = 4 April 1857

|alongside = Henry Holroyd (March 1857–April 1857)
Charles Frewen (1846–March 1857)
George Darby (1841–1846)

|predecessor = Charles Cavendish
George Darby

|successor = Henry Holroyd
John George Dodson

|birth_date = 7 May 1777

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|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1857|08|05|1777|05|07}}

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|nationality = British

|party = Conservative

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|spouse = {{marriage|Clara Putland-Meyrick|5 September 1801|end=d.|17 June 1856}}

|children = Five

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Augustus Eliott Fuller (7 May 1777 – 5 August 1857){{cite web |last1=Rayment |first1=Leigh |title=The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "S" |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Scommons6.htm |website=Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page |accessdate=18 August 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180818113510/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Scommons6.htm |archivedate=18 August 2018 |url-status=usurped |date=13 June 2017 }}{{cite web |last1=Lundy |first1=Darryl |title=Augustus Eliott Fuller |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p56442.htm |website=The Peerage |accessdate=18 August 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180818114158/http://www.thepeerage.com/p56442.htm |archivedate=18 August 2018 |date=16 August 2018 |url-status=live}}{{cite book |last1=Foster |first1=Joseph |title=The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of The British Empire for 1881: The Baronetage and Knightage |date=1881 |publisher=Nichols and Sons |location=Westminster |page=189 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uFE4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA189 |via=Google Books |accessdate=18 August 2018}} was a British Conservative politician.

Fuller was the son of John Trayton Fuller, of Ashdown House, Sussex, and his wife Anne, daughter of George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield. In 1801, he married Clara Putland-Meyrick (1773–1856), daughter of Owen Putland-Meyrick and Clara née Garth, and they had at least five children: Clara Fuller (died 1831); Owen John Augustus Fuller-Meyrick (1805–1876); Lucy Ann Fuller (1811–1903); Catharine Sarah Fuller ({{circa|1815}}–1858); and Augusta Maria Fuller ({{circa|1818}}–1871).

After unsuccessfully contesting East Sussex at the 1837 general election, Fuller was first elected Conservative MP for the constituency in 1841, and held the seat until 1857 when he was defeated, ranking fourth and last in the poll.{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|type=e-book |page=470}}