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Thomas Ekins Fuller

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Tulle was born in West Drayton, Middlesex, to Reverend Andrew Fuller and his wife Esther Hobson. Privately educated he would graduate from Bristol Baptist College. Becoming a Baptist pastor he would minister in Melksham, Lewis and Luton. During this time he married in 1855 and in addition to his
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Between 1873 and 1875 he worked as an immigration agent for the Colony in London, before returning to the Cape with a new wife to become general manager of the Union Steamship Company (1875–1898). He became a member of the
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pastoral work, contributed article to newspapers. In 1864, he would arrive in the Cape Colony, after a doctor advised that his wife's health would improve in that climate. Before leaving London, he met
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from 1864 until 1873. During his time at the paper, he advocated for responsible government of the Cape and for its own higher college of education which would much later evolve into the
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in the colony. He was an advocate of residential racial segregation in Cape Town and legislated for a restricted franchise for non-white males in the colony. After the
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Oxford dictionary of national biography : in association with the British Academy : from the earliest times to the year 2000
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He married Mary Playne Hillier, from Nailsworth, in 1855. Fuller married his second wife, Elizabeth Mann, in London in 1875.
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Fuller is visible on the far-right of the front row. He attended the 1902 Colonial Conference as Agent-General for the Cape.
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In 1902, he became the Cape Colony's agent-general in London until 1907. He was made a Companion of the Most Distinguished
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newspaper (1864–1873). He also supported the inclusive, locally oriented politics of his liberal allies at the time.
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Although initially a liberal, in later life, he came to be greatly influenced by the imperialist
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with the British government in London. Finally in 1898, he even became a director of the
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Dod's peerage, baronetage and knightage of Great Britain and Ireland
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Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
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He died on 5 September 1910 at Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
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Members of the House of Assembly of the Cape Colony
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Index

KCMG

Sir Gordon Sprigg
Sir Leander Starr Jameson
Member of the Cape House of Assembly
Cape Town
West Drayton
Middlesex
England
Tunbridge Wells
Kent
England
Progressive
KCMG
Cape Argus
Legislative Assembly
Cape Colony
responsible government
Cape Argus
Saul Solomon
Cape Town
University of Cape Town
tuberculosis
Legislative Assembly
Cape Colony
Cape Town

Cecil Rhodes
Progressive Party
Jameson Raid

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