Rose Fuller ( 1708 - 1777 )

Birth: 12 April 1708 Death: Gerrard Street, London, England (07 May 1777) Burial: Waldron, East Sussex, England (15 May 1777) Profession: Politician; landowner; industrialist; plantation and slave owner; colonial official Research field: Astronomy; medicine Education: Studied medicine at Leiden (1729-1732); Trinity College, University of Cambridge, matriculated (1725), MD (1732) Career: Sent to Jamaica to manage the family sugar plantations and the enslaved people who worked them (1733-1755); Jamaica Council (1737-1740); Jamaica Assembly (1735-1737,1740-1753); Jusge, SUpremem Court Jamaica (1737-1746); Chief Justice of Jamaica (1753); inherited his family estates in Sussex on the death of his older brother John Fuller junior (1755) and returned to England to manage the estates including the Heathfield furnace which produced iron-pigs and ordnance; MP for New Romney (1756-1761); MP for Maidstone (1761-1768); MP for Rye (1768-1777) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 20/04/1732.