John Trayton Fuller

???? - 1811


Biography

Father of Augustus Elliott Fuller and father-in-law of John Hamilton of Dover (both of whom q.v.). No evidence has been found to date of direct slave-owning by John Trayton Fuller, but he reportedly inherited significant wealth from his father Thomas Fuller, described as a West India merchant, in 1780.

  1. Will of John Trayton Fuller of East Grinstead [made in 1808] proved 13/06/1811. The will is extremely brief, leaving everything to his wife to dispose to the best advantage of his family and creditors, with his wife as executrix and his son Augustus Elliott as executor, requesting his brother Rose Fuller and Mr T.C. Lamb of Rye to assist her with their good advice, and leaving to his daughter Cordelia Eliona [sic] 'any two lives she may chuse out of my Tontine from Government in lieu of the hundred pound 3% consols sold in 1808 which produces £64 7[s] 6[d] to dispose of as she sees fit, whether by will or otherwise.'

Sources

Michael W. Fazio and Patrick A. Snadon, The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe (Johns Hopkins, 2006), p.141.

  1. PROB 11/1523/172.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Spouse
(1) Elizabeth Fuller (2) Anne Elliott
Children
Augustus Elliott; Cordelia

Legacies Summary

Physical (1)

Country house
Ashdown House [Built] 
description →
Grade II* country house near East Grinstead in Sussex, designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe and built c. 1792-1793 by John Trayton Fuller and his second wife Anne nee Elliott. Now a...
notes →
Michael W. Fazio and Patrick A. Snadon, The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2006)....

Relationships (4)

Father-in-law → Son-in-law
Father → Son
Brothers
Son → Father

Addresses (1)

East Grinstead, Sussex, South-east England, England