Reginald Cuthbert Fuller (12 September 1908 – 21 April 2011)[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] was a Catholic priest, biblical scholar and honorary Canon of Westminster Cathedral.
While there he availed himself of the opportunity to indulge some of his recreational interests and with members of the university staff went mountain climbing and visited Mount Kenya and the Ngorongoro Crater, and admired the wild-life in Serengeti/Tanzania and the Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe.
Among his involvement in major professional projects was the co-founding of the Catholic Biblical Association of Great Britain, of which he then was Hon.
As representative of the association, he acted in 1963 as promoter of a revised English spelling of biblical names for Catholic use before the Conference of Bishops of England and Wales (e.g. Noah, Elijah, Joshua, in place of Noe, Elias, Josue as found in the Douay-Challoner Bible, based on the Latin text).
Fuller was invited by Dom Bernard Orchard to be a member of the editorial committee of the first one-volume Bible commentary for English-speaking Catholics, entitled A Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture (CCHS, 1953 [1]); and the Westminster diocese entrusted Fuller in 1951 with the office of censor deputatus for the nihil obstat in its regard (cf.
In addition to many articles[14] and book reviews that Fuller contributed to specialist journals, e.g. Scripture Bulletin, Priests and People, The Tablet.