View source for Benjamin de la Fontaine d.1734

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===[[name::Benjamin]] [[name::DE LA FONTAINE]] d.[[date of death::1734]]===
[[file:DeLaFontaineBenjamin.JPG|thumb|De La Fontaine's bookplate (British Museum Franks Collection 8396)]]
====Biographical Note====
Presumably a successful [[location::London]] [[occupation::merchant]] of Huguenot descent; his will places him in the parish of St Martin Orgar, [[location::London]], refers to his counting house, ships, and property in [[location::Portsmouth]], and estimates the financial value of his estate at £5500.

====Books====
De La Fontaine used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 8396). The extent of his library is not known; in his will, he directed that his "plate furniture books pictures etc" be appraised for sale, but that his wife be allowed to keep £300-worth of these (or more, "if she pleases", on condition that she accounted to the estate for anything above that value).

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*[https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D637020 Will of Benjamin de la Fontaine, The National Archives PROB 11/666/282].
*Gambier Howe, E. R. J. ''Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum''. London, 1903.
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