# Squire Fuller of Brightling — The Four Men character guide

> Squire Fuller of Brightling in The Four Men by Hilaire Belloc.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Brightling, Fuller, the great Fuller

**First appearance:** 0005-the-thirtieth-of-october-1902

## Snapshot

A Sussex demigod of a squire who spent his fortune like an immortal, driving six horses to Westminster and leaving follies behind him.

## Who they are

Fuller of Brightling belongs to the county's mythic memory rather than its present: the narrator's proof that Sussex once bred men with the heart of Earl Godwin. His extravagance — the great coach, the roaring hospitality, the obelisk that draws eyes from all around — is offered as a rebuke to the cautious, close-fisted travelers trading shots at the inn. He matters because he gives the pilgrimage its local saint, a standard of largeness the four men measure their own smallness against.

## In the story

### [The Thirtieth of October 1902](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_men_se/chapters/the-thirtieth-of-october-1902)

Subject of the narrator's story: a Sussex squire who defied Parliament and returned home in triumph.

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