Claude Fonnereau | |
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.jpg) Portrait of Fonnereau, British School, c. 1725 | |
| Born | 22 March 1677 La Rochelle, France |
| Died | 5 April 1740 (aged 63) Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Bureau |
| Children | Thomas Fonnereau, Zachary Philip Fonnereau |
| Relatives | Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny, 1st Baronet (grandson) Philip Champion de Crespigny (grandson) Philip Fonnereau (grandson) Martyn Fonnereau (grandson) |
Claude Fonnereau (22 March 1677,[1] – 5 April 1740) was a French Huguenot refugee who settled in England and became a prominent merchant.[1][2] He was the founding father of the Fonnereau family in England.
- ^ a b Agnew, Rev. David C. A. (David Carnegie Andrew) (1886). Protestant Exiles from France, Chiefly in the Reign of Louis XIV: Or, The Huguenot Refugees and Their Descendants in Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2. Edinburgh: Turnbull & Spears. p. 400.
- ^ 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.