Background
Fuller was born at Nedanone, County Kerry, the only son of Thomas Harnett Fuller of Glashnacree, County Kerry, by his first wife, Frances Diana, a daughter of Francis Christopher Bland of Derryquin Castle.
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James Fuller
James Franklin Fuller was an Irish actor, architect and novelist.
Education
He was educated in Blackrock, County Cork, and Dublin.
Career
In 1850 he went to London where he qualified as an architect, and later moved to Manchester. In 1862 he became a district architect under the Board of Ecclesiastical Commissioners in Ireland. Two years later he became architect to the Representative Church Body and shortly afterwards was appointed architect to Saint Patrick"s Cathedral, as well as to a number of other institutions.
He ran a busy, though, according to his memoirs, unconventional, practice, not keeping ledgers or books and disdaining keeping financial records.
As well as his ecclesiastical projects and public building works, he designed a number of large houses around Kerry. He designed Kylemore Abbey in the 1860s and a few years later the neighbouring neo-Gothic church, a building of international significance.
He wrote works of fiction, including Culmshire Folk (Cassell, 1873) and John Orlebar, Clerk (Cassell, 1878) and many articles of a historical and genealogical nature.
