he returned to Cape Town to take up the post of general manager there of the Union Steamship Company. He held this office for twenty-three years.
Meanwhile he engaged actively in politics. In 1878 he was returned as one of the members for Cape Town in the House of Assembly, and retained the seat till his resignation in 1902. He was an eloquent and impressive speaker in parliament and advocated every progressive measure. He refused office, believing that he could serve the colony better as a private member. In his last years in parliament he was a steady and a prominent supporter of Cecil Rhodes's policy, and became his intimate friend. In 1898 he was made a director of De Beers Consohdated Mines Company, and thereupon he resigned his post with the Union Co. from a fear that the prominent part he took in party politics might react prejudicially on the welfare of the company. At the same time he found time for municipal work and was a member of the town council, a trustee of the public library, chairman of the harbour board, and a leading spirit in the chamber of commerce.
At the end of 1901 he returned to England, and on 1 Jan. 1902 assumed the office of agent-general to the Cape, resigning the De Beers directorship at the same time; he remained agent-general till 1907. In 1903 he was made C.M.G. and next year K.C.M.G. He died at Tunbridge Wells on 5 Sept. 1910. Fuller married (1) in 1855 Mary Playne, daughter of Isaac Hillier of Nailsworth, and by her had three sons and a daughter; (2) in 1875 Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Mann of Cowes. His eldest son, Mr. William Henry Fuller, commanded the East London town guard during the Boer war of 1899-1902. Fuller was a man of high intellectual culture, and a profound student of philosophy. To the end of his life he reviewed literary works in the press and contributed a notable article to the 'Westminster Review' on 'Man's Relation to the Universe through Cosmic Emotion' (reprinted 1902). His last publication was 'Cecil Rhodes, a Monograph and Reminiscence' (1910), a valuable contribution to the biography of his friend.
[Anglo-African Who's Who, 1905; personal knowledge.]
FULLEYLOVE, JOHN (1845–1908), landscape painter, born at Leicester on 18 Aug. 1845, was son of John and Elizabeth Fulleylove. He was educated at day-schools in that town, and when about sixteen was articled as a clerk to Flint, Shenton and Baker, a local firm of architects. He developed a strong natural bent for the picturesque side of architecture by sketching from nature in his free hours, and received some instruction in painting from Harry Ward, a drawing-master of the school of Harding.
Fulleylove's earliest drawings were views of his native town and its neighbourhood. Taking up art professionally he began to exhibit English subjects in London in 1871. Subsequently he travelled widely at home and abroad in search of themes. In 1875 and again in 1880 he made tours in Italy. He spent the summer of 1878 in sketching at Tabley Old Hall, that of 1879 at Hampton Court, and that of 1882 at Versailles.
He was elected an associate of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in the spring of 1878, and became a member next year. Fulleylove moved from Leicester to London in 1883 and established himself at first in a house in Mecklenburgh Square, later moving (1893) to Great Russell Street, and ultimately (1894) to Church Row, Hampstead. Besides exhibiting an ever-widening range of subjects at the Institute, he held many exhibitions of his work at the Fine Art Society's galleries in Bond Street. Of these individual exhibitions, the first consisted of drawings of south-eastern France, 'Petrarch's Country' (1886); this was followed by views of Oxford (1888); views of Cambridge (1890); Parisian subjects and studies of Versailles (1894). In 1892 he exhibited a collection of local sketches at Leicester. In the summer of 1895 he visited Greece in company with his friends Alfred Higgins and Somers Clarke. Ninety drawings made during this tour, exhibited at the Fine Art Society's gallery in the following spring, mark the highest level of his achievement.
He occasionally practised painting in oil, was a member of the Institute of Painters in Oil, and contributed oil-paintings to the Academy and other exhibitions. In the summer of 1898 he executed a number of small panel pictures of Oxford which were exhibited at the Fine Art Society's Gallery in 1899. They were painted direct from nature, whereas the large oil pictures by which he was occasionally represented in later years at the Academy were worked up from water-colour sketches.
Fulleylove's next exhibition in Bond Street (1902) consisted of drawings of the
