Thomas Fonnereau

For the author and artist, see Thomas George Fonnereau.

Thomas Fonnereau (27 October 1699, in London 20 March 1779) was a British businessman and politician, the eldest son of the merchant Claude Fonnereau.

A London merchant, he was of Huguenot extraction.[1] Returned for Sudbury in 1741, he continued to sit for that constituency until 1768, several of those years in conjunction with Thomas Walpole, a business connection.[1] However, he retained interests in Suffolk and was a member of the Free British Fishery Society,[2] and was MP for the constituency of Aldeburgh there at the end of his life.

References

  1. 1 2 Namier, L.B. (October 1927). "Brice Fisher, M. P.: A Mid-Eighteenth-Century Merchant and His Connexions". The English Historical Review 42 (168): 514–532. doi:10.1093/ehr/XLII.CLXVIII.514. JSTOR 552412.
  2. Harris, Bob (February 1996). ""American Idols": Empire, War and the Middling Ranks in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain". Past and Present 150: 111–141. doi:10.1093/past/150.1.111. JSTOR 651239.
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
Richard Price
Edward Stephenson
Member of Parliament for Sudbury
with Carteret Leathes 17411747
Richard Rigby 17471754
Thomas Walpole 17541761
John Henniker 17611768

17411768
Succeeded by
Patrick Blake
Walden Hanmer
Preceded by
Zachary Philip Fonnereau
Nicholas Linwood
Member of Parliament for Aldeburgh
with Zachary Philip Fonnereau 17731774
Richard Combe 17741779

17731779
Succeeded by
Richard Combe
Martyn Fonnereau


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