John Samuel Martin Fonblanque

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John Samuel Martin Fonblanque (1760–1838) was a distinguished equity lawyer.

He was descended from a Huguenot family, his father having exchanged the surname Grenier for that of Fonblanque on his naturalization. John was the author of a standard legal work, a Treatise on Equity; he represented the borough of Camelford in Parliament and was one of the Whig friends of King George IV when Prince of Wales. He was the father of Albany Fonblanque.