Fleming Fulton History
Fleming Fulton School is named after Dr. Thomas Fleming Stevenson Fulton (1887-1974) .
Fleming was the oldest of three children born to Rev. and Mrs Thomas Cosby Fulton .
He was born in Newchwang ,Manchuria where his parents had been Presbyterian missionaries since 1884.
His middle names "Fleming Stevenson " were taken from a Dr. Fleming Stevenson ( 1832 -1886 ) who was an Irish Presbyterian Theologian , was Convenor of the Foreign Mission in Manchuria and the Rev. Thomas Cosby Fulton's boss when he first arrived in China.
The Fulton family were originally farmers from Carnmoney ,Co Antrim were Thomas Cosby Fulton had been born in 1856.
Fleming Fulton was sent to boarding school in England and then medical school in Belfast.
He married Mary Elizabeth Lyons in Belfast in 1914 and then spent the next four years as a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corp in W.W.1 in France.
After the war he went back to work as a medical missionary in China but had to return to Belfast in 1921 due to illness.
From 1923 to 1953 Dr. Fleming Fulton was the pioneer of the School Medical Services in N.I. ending up as Senior Officer of Health for Schools.
In this position and as Chairman of the N.I. Orthopaedic Services he was closely involved with the development of a multidisciplinary school to teach children with cerebral palsy.
The Belfast Education Authority opened Mount Collyer House in 1957 but soon renamed it "Fleming Fulton School " in honour of his work in this field.
Dr. Fleming Fulton passed away in 1974 and is buried in the family grave at Dundonald Cemetery.
Senior boys from Fleming Fulton School attended his funeral at their request.
Dr Fleming Fulton and family
