Augustus Elliott Fuller

London West India merchant and slave-owner.

1. Son of Mr J. Trayton Fuller of Ashdown House, Sussex by his second wife Anne, the daughter of Gen Augustus Elliott, the first Lord Heathfield. MP for East Sussex 1841-1857.  Married Clara, daughter of Owen Putland Meyrick of Bodorgan, Anglesey Sept 5 1801.

2. Partially succeeded to estates of John 'Mad Jack' Fuller (1757-1834), the nephew of Rose Fuller (1708-1777), leaving £160,000. Another nephew of Rose Fuller (1708-1777) was Rose Fuller (1748-1821), leaving £120,000, a partner in Rose and Augustus Fuller, 4 Church Court Clements Lane. This second Rose Fuller was Augustus Elliott Fuller's uncle: the firm is subsequently shown as Augustus E. Fuller at the same address.  

3. The other co-heir of John Fuller was Sir Peregrine Palmer Fuller Palmer Acland, whose father Sir John Palmer Acland 1st bart. (1756-1831) had married Elizabeth Fuller, the sister of John Fuller.  Augustus Elliott Fuller's father John Trayton Fuller (1743-1811) was the son of Thomas Fuller and grandson of John Fuller and Elizabeth Rose, and nephew of Rose Fuller MP.

1. Ancestry.com, Cambridge University Alumni 1261-1900 [database online]. 

2. William D. Rubinstein, Who were the rich? A biographical dictionary of British wealth-holders Volume One 1809-1839 (London, Social Affairs Unit, 2009) references 1834/26 and 1821/25; William Courthope (ed.), Debrett's Baronetage of England ([7th ed.], London, J. G. & F. Rivington, 1835), 'Fuller-Elliott-Drake of Nutwell Court, Buckland Abbey' etc. p. 411.

3. William D. Rubinstein, Who were the rich? A biographical dictionary of British wealth-holders Volume Two 1840-1859 (MS) reference 1844/8 for Thomas Palmer Acland, Sir Peregrine Palmer Fuller Palmer Acland's uncle.