Thomas Fonnereau

Thomas Fonnereau (London, 27 October 1699 – 20 March 1779) was a British businessman and politician, the eldest son of the merchant Claude Fonnereau.

A London merchant, he was of Huguenot extraction.cite journal | last=Namier | first=L.B. | title=Brice Fisher, M. P.: A Mid-Eighteenth-Century Merchant and His Connexions | journal=The English Historical Review | volume=42 | number=168 | month=October | year=1927 | pages=514–532 | url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8266%28192710%2942%3A168%3C514%3ABFMPAM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5 | accessdate=2003-09-23 | issue=168 | doi=10.1093/ehr/XLII.CLXVIII.514] 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. However, he retained interests in Suffolk and was a member of the Free British Fishery Societycite journal | title="American Idols": Empire, War and the Middling Ranks in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain | first=Bob | last=Harris | journal=Past and Present | number=150 | month=February | year=1996 | pages=111–141 | url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0031-2746%28199602%290%3A150%3C111%3A%22IEWAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I | accessdate=2006-09-23] , and was MP for the constituency of Aldeburgh there at the end of his life.

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