About Martyn Fonnereau
Lived 1741 – 1817 (aged 76). Martyn Fonnereau was a politician.
Martyn Fonnereau (19 March 1741 – 18 May 1817) was the second son of Zachary Philip Fonnereau, a British merchant and banker of Huguenot extraction.
He was a Director of the Bank of England from 1771 to 1783.
He and his younger brother Thomas were named in the will of Jane (Poyntz) Malcher, which prompted the precedential case Fonnereau v. Poyntz in 1785.
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Who was Martyn Fonnereau?
British politician
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Martyn Fonnereau was born on 19 March 1741.
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Martyn Fonnereau died on 18 May 1817.
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Martyn Fonnereau was a politician.
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