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Zachary Philip Fonnereau (31 January 1706 – 15 August 1778) was a British businessman and politician.[1]
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]
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]
By his marriage to Margaret Martyn, he left five children, two of whom also served as Members of Parliament for Aldeburgh:
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