Fonblanque.

Fonblanque. ALBANY WILLIAM, English journalist, was born in London in 1793, and when only nineteen exchanged the law for journalism. As editor of the Examiner, a leading Liberal weekly journal, he exhibited a singular keenness both of wit and intellect, and exercised no inconsiderable influence on public opinion between the years 1830 and 1836. The characteristics of his political writings may be gathered from his England under Seven Administrations (1837), a reprint of articles published in the Examiner from the period of the Canning and Goderich ministries to the return of the Melbourne ministry. Fonblanque's services to the Whigs were rewarded by his appointment to the uncongenial office of secretary to the Statistical Department of the Board of Trade in 1847. He died on 14th October 1872. A further collection of his writings from 1837 to 1860 was published by his nephew, together with a biographical memoir, in 1874.