PARGITER FULLER, Samuel (c.1690-1722), of Westminster and Stedham, Suss.

Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970
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Constituency

Dates

7 Nov. 1715 - 1722

Family and Education

b. c.1690, 1st s. of Samuel Pargiter of St. Andrew, Holborn, merchant, and consul at Nice, by his w. Frances. m. c.1713, Margaret, da. and h. of Douse Fuller of Chamberhouse, Berks. and Stedham, Suss. and assumed add. name of Fuller, 1s. suc. fa. 1709.

Offices Held

Biography

Returned as a Whig for Petersfield at a by-election in 1715, Fuller voted against the septennial bill in 1716, for the repeal of the Occasional Conformity and Schism Acts and against the peerage bill in 1719.

He tried unsuccessfully to present a petition from Lady Derwentwater, 1716; to provoke a debate on Gibraltar, 1719; and to divide the House on Aislabie’s expulsion, 1721.1 He died 21 Nov. 1722.

Ref Volumes: 1715-1754

Author: Paula Watson

Notes

  • 1. Dudley Ryder Diary, 186; W. Michael, England under Geo. I, ii. 130; Coxe, Walpole, ii. 210.