HENRY FULLER

DEATH OF REV. HENRY FULLER

A LINCOLNSHIRE VICAR FORTY-EIGHT YEARS IN ORDERS

The death took place on Saturday of the Rev. Henry Fuller, who for the last eighteen months had been living at 7, Craven-road, Newbury, after retiring from a long and active ministerial career in Lincolnshire and adjoining counties.
The deceased clergyman was born at Oxford seventy years ago and was educated at St Aidan's College, Birkenhead. Ordained in 1865, he filled the following curacies:- Shomcliffe, 1863-65; St James, Wolverhampton, 1865-1868; Christ Church, Leicester, 1968-72; St Nicholas, Leicester, 1872-73; St. Andrews, Nottingham, 1873-74. In 1885 he was appointed to the rectorship of East and West Torrington, Lincolnshire, in which parish he remained for twenty-six years. He also held the office of Rural Dean of Wraggoe for six years. In addition to a faithful discharge of his parochial duties, he took an active part in public life, and there was hardly a committee in the City of Lincoln of which he was not a member, or few movements for the betterment of the people in which he did not take a keen interest.
Mr Fuller served on the Board of Guardians for many years, and was a sympathetic administrator of the Poor Law. He was a Justice of the Peace for the Lindsey district, and as such brought to bear upon his duties a dispassionate judgment. Evangelical in his views, his interest in missions was very serious, holding the office of Association Secretary for the Church Missionary Society for twenty-five years. In his various parishes he won the respect and affection of the people among whom he laboured, which was evident in practical manner by a number of valuable presentations. In 1873 on leaving St Nicholas, Leicester, he was given a clock and a purse of one hundred guineas, together with an address which included the following sentence:- "The fruits of your faithful preaching and consistent conduct, have not been un-noticed in this world, and we have no doubt that by your faithful teaching of Christ crucified, many have been made glad and entered into eternal rest."
On resigning the living of East and West Torrington, the clergy of the county and other friends presented two easy chairs and a purse of one hundred guineas. A nervous breakdown necessitated retirement, and under medical advice he gave up his active work, coming to reside at Newbury, where his daughter had been for several years. He greatly benefited by the change, and was delighted to render occasional assistance at several of the local churches. Fond of an open-air life, his hobby was gardening, and he was spending the evening of his life in simple fashion. Fourteen weeks ago it was discovered that he was suffering from diabetes, and since then he had been practically confined to his bed. But in sickness, as in health, he was peaceful and happy, and the end came quietly on Saturday morning.
Mr. Fuller was twice married, and his second wife survives him, also six children.

THE FUNERAL
The funeral took place on Tuesday afternoon, and drawn blinds in Craven-road testified to the respect entertained for the deceased by his neighbours. The first part of the service was conducted at the parish church, and was of plain and simple character. The body was met at the entrance by the Rector (Rev. L.R. Majendie4), Rev. Frank Streatfeild and Rev. P. Levy, and during the service it was deposited in the chancel. The mourners were Mrs Fuller (widow), Miss Fuller, Miss Kathleen Fuller, Mrs. Houston (daughters), Mr. Noel Fuller, Mr. Ernest Fuller (sons), Mr. Houston (son-in-law), the housekeeper and nurse. Present in church were Rev. C.M. Ottley, Mr. Streatfeild, Miss Streatfeild, Rev. E.J. Corbould, Mrs.Liddle, Miss Bunny, Nurse Roche, Mr. and Mrs. Jo Parker.

Newbury weekly News

8 June 1913
Died 31 March 1913

aged 70

Buried 4 June 1913 Bk 1899 p.245 no. 9155