Sir John de Fonblanque Pennefather, 1st Baronet, JP (29 March 1856 – 8 August 1933), was a British cotton merchant and Conservative politician. Pennefather was born at

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, Western Australia, the son of Kingsmill Pennefather by his second wife Jane Catherine Patricia de Grenier de

Fonblanque Fonblanque and de Fonblanque are Huguenot names. They may refer to nine members of a prominent English family, descending from Jean de Grenier de Fonblanque, a banker, naturalised as Jean de Grenier Fonblanque:R. G. Thorne, ''The History of Parliame ...

, eldest daughter of Thomas de Grenier de Fonblanque, British Consul-General and

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and Joan Catherine Barrington, and granddaughter of Sir Jonah Barrington. He was returned to Parliament for Kirkdale division of

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at a by-election in February 1915, and held the seat until he stood down from the House of Commons at the 1929 general election. In 1923 he adopted the first name of John, and in 1924 he was created a

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, of

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in the County of

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. He was also a

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for

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. Pennefather married Madeline Emily Melesina Stewart, daughter of Sir Robert Prescott Stewart on 28 April 1886. They had no children. He died on 8 August 1933, aged 77, at which time the baronetcy became extinct.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pennefather, John 1856 births 1933 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom UK MPs 1910–1918 UK MPs 1918–1922 UK MPs 1922–1923 UK MPs 1923–1924 UK MPs 1924–1929 Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Politicians from Perth, Western Australia Colony of Western Australia people Australian people of British descent