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DE FONBLANQUE, JOHN ANTHONY (subsequently FONBLANQUE, JOHN DE GRENIER), second son of Jean Grenier De Fonblanque, London, merchant and banker, and Eleanor, dau. of Thomas Bagshawe, London; b.; adm. 24 Jan 1774; left Christmas 1774; at Harrow School 1774-6; St. John’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 18 Nov 1780, aged 21; adm. Middle Temple 24 Sep 1777, called to bar 4 Jan 1783, Bencher 1 Jun 1804, Reader 1808, Treasurer 1815; KC 28 Apr 1804; MP Camelford 1802-6; assumed additional name of De Grenier by royal licence May 1828; regarded at his death as the “father of the English Bar”; writer on legal subjects; m. 30 May 1786 Frances Caroline, dau. of Col. John Fitzgerald; d. 4 Jan 1837. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.