Roy Fuller

He was born at Failsworth, Lancashire to lower-middle-class parents Leopold Charles Fuller and his wife Nellie (1888–1949; née Broadbent), whose father was clerk to a workhouse master.

[2] Orphaned and subsequently raised with his elder sister, Minnie (later Matron of the Manchester Royal Infirmary)[3] at Caithness, Leopold worked his way up to the position of works manager (also later becoming a director) of a rubber-proofing mill at Hollinwood, Greater Manchester, dying in 1920.

After qualifying as a solicitor in 1933,[8] he worked for The Woolwich Equitable Building Society, ending his career as head of the legal department and a director.

He also began to write fiction, including crime novels, in the 1950s, and wrote several volumes of memoirs.

In 1966 Anthony Powell dedicated to Fuller his novel The Soldier's Art, the eighth volume of his masterwork, A Dance to the Music of Time.