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Thomas Fonnereau (27 October 1699, in 
Fonnrereau was the eldest son of
Thomas Fonnereau (27 October 1699, in London
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– 20 March 1779) was a British merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons
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between 1741 and 1779.
Fonnrereau was the eldest son of Claude Fonnereau
Claude Fonnereau (22 March 1677, La Rochelle – 5 April 1740, Hoddesdon) was a French people, French Huguenot refugee who settled in England and became a prominent merchant. He was the founding father of the Fonnereau family in England.
In 1735 ...
, a wealthy Huguenot
The Huguenots ( , also , ) were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Be ...
merchant who had settled in Ipswich. He succeeded his father in 1740, inheriting his estates, which included Christchurch Mansion
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in Ipswich
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.
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in 1741, he continued to sit for that constituency until 1768, several of those years in conjunction with Thomas Walpole
Thomas Walpole (6 October 1727 – March 1803), styled from 1756 The Hon. Thomas Walpole, was a British MP and banker in Paris.
Life
Thomas Walpole was born into a political family. The second son of the 1st Baron Walpole and his wife Telisha, ...
, a business connection. However, he retained interests in Suffolk
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and was a member of the Free British Fishery Society, as well as MP for the constituency of Aldeburgh
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at the end of his life, serving briefly alongside his brother, Zachary Philip Fonnereau
Zachary Philip Fonnereau (31 January 1706 – 15 August 1778) was a British businessman and politician.
Early life
Fonnereau was born in London on 31 January 1706, the fourth son of Claude Fonnereau of Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, a London me ...
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He died unmarried in 1779 and was succeeded by his brother, Dr. Claudius Fonnereau (1701-1785).
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