Thomas Fonnereau
Thomas Fonnereau (27 October 1699, in London – 20 March 1779) was a British merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1741 and 1779.
Fonnrereau was the eldest son of the merchant Claude Fonnereau, a well-to-do London merchant of Huguenot extraction.[1] He succeeded his father in 1740, inheriting his estates, which included Christchurch in Ipswich.
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.[3]
He died unmarried in 1779 and was succeeded by his brother Dr Claudius Fonnereau (1701-85).
References
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