Zachary Philip Fonnereau

Zachary Philip Fonnereau (London, 31 January 1706 – 15 August 1778) was a British businessman and politician, the fourth 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] He played a prominent role in financing the Seven Years' War.cite journal | title=The Duke of Newcastle and the Financing of the Seven Years' War | last=Browning | first=Reed | journal=The Journal of Economic History | volume=31 | number=2 | month=June | year=1971 | pages=344–377 | url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-0507%28197106%2931%3A2%3C344%3ATDONAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y | accessdate=2006-09-23 | issue=2]

By his marriage to Margaret Martyn, he left five children, the two elder of whom both entered Parliament for Aldeburgh:
*Philip Fonnereau (1739–1797)
*Martyn Fonnereau (1741–1817)
*Charlotte Fonnereau (28 January 1742 – 15 November 1806)
*Fanny Fonnereau (7 January 1744 – 10 January 1827), married George Stainforth, Jr. on 22 March 1777 at Cornhill, died without issue
*Thomas Fonnereau (21 January 1746 – 26 December 1788), married Harriet Hanson on 19 October 1786 and left issue

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