James Franklin Fuller

James Franklin Fuller (1835–1924) was an Irish actor, architect and novelist.

[1] Fuller was born at Nedanone,[2] 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[2] of Derryquin Castle.

In 1862 he became a district architect under the Board of Ecclesiastical Commissioners in Ireland.

[2] He designed Kylemore Abbey, Connemara, in the 1860s and a few years later the neighbouring neo-Gothic church, a building of international significance.

[3] 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.