Claude Fonnereau

Claude Fonnereau (1677, La Rochelle – 5 April 1740, Hoddesdon) was a French Huguenot refugee who settled in England and became a prominent merchant. He was the founding father of the Fonnereau family in England.
In 1735 he purchased Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich, Suffolk, from Price Devereux, 10th Viscount Hereford.
He was a Director of the Bank of England from 1738 to 1740.
Family life.
Claude was the son of Zacharie Fonnereau and Marguerite Chataigner. He married Elizabeth Bureau, also a Huguenot, the daughter of Anne Bureau, and had several children: