Roy Broadbent FullerCBE (11 February 1912 – 27 September 1991) was an English writer, known mostly as a poet.
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.[1] His father, born at Fulham in 1884, was the illegitimate son of Minnie Augusta Fuller (born 1863), daughter of a Soham police constable, Richard Fuller.[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.[4][5][6]
Poems (1939) was his first book of poetry. He also began to write fiction, including crime novels, in the 1950s, and wrote several volumes of memoirs.[7] As a poet he became identified, on stylistic grounds, with The Movement. He was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University from 1968 to 1973.[7] From 1972 to 1979 he was a member of the Board of Governors of the BBC.