Family
John Anthony de Grenier Fonblanque inherited the French title of Marquis near the end of his life although he never assumed it in England. He died on 4 January 1837 in his 77th year, still confined to the area just outside the debtors' prison, retaining his faculties to the last and "with perfect resignation".
His parents were Jean de Grenier, a banker, naturalized as Jean de Grenier Fonblanque, younger son of Abel de Grenier comte de Fonblanque, of Tarn et Garonne, Languedoc, and of a family of Gentilshommes Verriers, a monopoly granted by St. Louis on his return from the Crusades, and Eleanor, daughter of Thomas Bagshaw.
He married 30 May 1786 Frances Caroline Fitzgerald (1760–1844), sister of the poet William Thomas Fitzgerald and daughter of Colonel John Austen Fitzgerald and Henrietta Martin sister of Samuel Martin, and with her he was father of:
- John Samuel Martin Fonblanque (March 1787 - 2 November 1865),
- Thomas de Grenier de Fonblanque (26 January 1793 - 1861), vicomte de Fonblanque, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul General and Chargé d'Affaires in Servia and father of Edward Barrington de Fonblanque of the War Office
- Albany Fonblanque (1 October 1794 - 13 October 1872).
- and three daughters; Caroline, Harriott and Eliza.
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