John Anthony Fonblanque
John Anthony Fonblanque KC (1759 – 4 January 1837), barrister and MP was a distinguished equity lawyer.
In 1828, late in life, he changed his surname by royal licence to de Grenier Fonblanque, He was descended from a Huguenot family, his father having exchanged the surname 'de Grenier de Fonblanque' for that of Fonblanque on his naturalization.
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