Zachary Philip Fonnereau

Zachary Philip Fonnereau (31 January 1706 – 15 August 1778) was a British businessman and politician. ^[1]

Early life

Fonnereau was born in London on 31 January 1706, the fourth son of Claude Fonnereau of Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, a London merchant of Huguenot extraction. ^[2]

Career

Fonnereau played a prominent role in financing the Seven Years' War, ^[3] and served as a director of the East India Company in 1753 and 1754. ^[4]

He was returned as the Member of Parliament for Aldeburgh at the 1747 election on the interest of his brother, Thomas Fonnereau, ^[2] who had developed an independent interest in the borough at the expense of the Government (which had formerly controlled it by patronage). However, Zachary consistently voted in support of Government when in Parliament. ^[2]

Personal life

By his marriage to Margaret Martyn, he left five children, two of whom also served as Members of Parliament for Aldeburgh:

• Philip Fonnereau (1739–1797), MP for Aldeburgh from 1761 to 1768 who married Mary Parker, a daughter of Armstead Parker, MP for Peterborough. ^[5]
• Martyn Fonnereau (1741–1817), MP for Aldeburgh from 1779 to 1784
• Charlotte Fonnereau (1742–1806)
• Fanny Fonnereau (1744–1827), who married George Stainforth Jr., in 1777 at Cornhill, died childless
• Thomas Fonnereau (1746–1788), who married Harriet Hanson in 1786 and left children, including the author and artist Thomas George Fonnereau

References

1. 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. Sedgwick, Romney R. (1970). "FONNEREAU, Zachary Philip (1706-78), of Sise Lane, Bucklersbury, London.". In Sedgwick, Romney (ed.). The House of Commons 1715–1754. The History of Parliament Trust.
3. Browning, Reed (June 1971). "The Duke of Newcastle and the Financing of the Seven Years' War". The Journal of Economic History. 31 (2): 344–377. doi:10.1017/S0022050700090914. JSTOR   2117049. S2CID   154806047.
4. "The Directors of the East India Company, 1754-1790" (PDF). James gordon parker. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
5. Drummond, Mary M. "PARKER, Armstead (c.1699-1777), of Burghberry Manor, Peterborough, Northants". historyofparliamentonline.org. History of Parliament Online. Archived from the original on 14 November 2023. Retrieved 14 November 2023.

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by William Conolly Richard Plumer	Member of Parliament for Aldeburgh 1747–1774 With: William Windham 1747–1761 Philip Fonnereau 1761–1768 Nicholas Linwood 1768–1773 Thomas Fonnereau 1773–1774	Succeeded by Thomas Fonnereau Richard Combe