FULTON, John, clergyman, born in Glasgow, Scotland, 2 April 1834. He studied in the Channel Islands and at Aberdeen, removed in 1853 to the United States, and took priest's orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church at New Orleans in 1858. He has devoted much time to researches regarding the canon law, and is considered one of the ablest canonists in his denomination. He has received the degree of D. D. and LL.D., and at present (1887) resides in St. Louis. His principai works are "Letters on Christian Unity" (1868); " Index Canonum," including those of the general and provincial councils in Greek and English (New York, 1872); " Laws of Marriage" (1883); and "Documentary History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States."