William Fuller

William Fuller (1705-1800) was Benjamin Flower's uncle and a wealthy banker involved with the Bank of England as well as the owner of the firm of Fuller, Chatteris, & Co., located at 24 Lombard Street, London.  His brother, Richard Fuller, was also a banker at 84 Cornhill, London (Wakefield’s London Directory [1790], 376; Holden’s Triennial London Directory [1805], 1.143).  The Fullers, like Flower and nearly all of his relatives and friends, were Dissenters.  Both brothers subscribed £10.10 to the Sunday School Society in 1789.  Though an Independent, William Fuller was generous toward other Dissenting denominations, presenting a gift of £1000 in stock and annuities to the Particular Baptist Fund in London in 1798 which was to be used to support six Baptist ministers each year “who stand in need of relief and are esteemed diligent in preaching the Gospel of the Grace of God, Men of Education, and of exemplary piety in life and conversation,” as Theo Valentine notes. At his death in March 1800 at the age of 95, William Fuller left his daughters an inheritance of more than £600,000.  See Plan of a Society Established in London, Anno Domini 1785, for the Support and Encouragement of Sunday-Schools in Different Counties of England (London: Sunday School Society, 1789), 26; Theo. F. Valentine, Concern for the Ministry: The Story of the Particular Baptist Fund 1717–1967 (Teddington, UK: Particular Baptist Fund, 1967), 30.