Fuller 15.3.1797 at Robert Knight's
Richard Fuller banker of Cornhill (will PCC 1782) had five sons Richard, George, Charles, Joseph and William. Charles married 22.4.1795 at St Geo Han Sq Jane widow of Benjamin Bond Hopkins (will PCC 1794) who had married her 22.2.1791 as a widower, she was Jane Davis otherwise Knight spinster of Clapham Surrey, Robert Knight was a witness. Davis was the name of the unmarried mother of the Knights, so Charles Fuller was Robert Knight's brother-in-law. His brothers Joseph and William both became Guards officers. In 1805 Robert Knight prosecuted Joseph Fuller for crim con (adultery) with his wife and was awarded £7000. It was stated i n court Joseph Fuller had taken advantage of his intimacy with the Knights due to his brother being married to Robert Knight's sister. In 1814 Knight prosecuted Lord Middleton for crim con and won no award as he was by then separated from his wife but his concern was chiefly to prevent their son from claiming his inheritance. The son had been baptised Henry Charles son of Charles & Frances Knight at St Marylebone and Robert Knight feared they would later claim that the father's name was an error for Robert. See History of Parliament where it is unfairly suggested that Robert Knight disinherited his son as a kind of revenge for his own illegitimacy
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JOSEPH FULLER d.1841
CURRENT TEXT "(d.1841), army officer, was appointed"
SUGGESTED CHANGE <(c.1771-1841), army officer, was the fourth of five sons of Richard Fuller (c.1713-1782), MP and banker of Cornhill and of the Rookery, Dorking, from a dissenting family, and of his wife Susanna nee Barnard (d.1789). He was appointed>
NOTES will of Richard Fuller PCC 1782 PROB 11/1086/376. His age was given as 70 in his burial record of Sir Joseph Fuller at Kensal Green Cemetery 21.9.1841
SUGGESTED ADDITION <In 1805 his brother-in-law Robert Knight of Barrells Hall, prosecuted Fuller for adultery with his wife Frances, daughter of Charles, 8th Baron Dormer, and won £7000.>
NOTES See History of Parliament 1790-1820 Robert Knight which cites Salopian Jnl 24.4.1805