ALBANY WILLIAM FONBLANQUE BIOGRAPHY
ALBANY WILLIAM FONBLANQUE BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
FONBLANQUE, ALBANY WILLIAM (1793-1872). —Journalist and political writer, was of Huguenot descent, the s. of a Commissioner in Bankruptcy. He was bred to the law, but deserted it for journalism, in which he took a high place. He wrote much for The Times , and Westminster Review , and subsequently became ed. and proprietor of the Examiner . His best articles were republished as England under Seven Administrations (1837). He also wrote How we are Governed . In 1847 he was appointed Statistical Sec. to the Board of Trade.