Henry Ernest Fuller was born in Adelaide, a son of Henry Robert Fuller (1825–1905), mayor of Adelaide 1866–1869 and member of both houses of state parliament.
[1] He was articled to architect Isidor George Beaver for four years from 1884, and on graduating worked for the firm of Wright, Reed, & Beaver as a draftsman, then with architect E. H. Bayer.
In 1896 he went into practice on his own account, collaborating with Hedley Allen Dunn on a design for the new YWCA building (not adopted) in 1899, and the Adelaide Stock Exchange, which was built in 1901.
He was art critic for Adelaide's Advertiser, from 1931 to 1952, succeeded by Elizabeth Campbell, who wrote as Elizabeth Young, her name prior to her marrying Robert Campbell, director of Adelaide's National Gallery.
[1] He was also South Australian secretary for the Trinity College Musical Examinations in London.