Erasmus de la Fontaine
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Sir Erasmus II de la Fontaine (1601-1672) was an English landowner from a Huguenot family, who lived at Kirby Bellars in Leicestershire.
He served King Charles I as High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1628. His other estates included the manor of Holme at Langford, Bedfordshire,[1] Moulton Park in Northamptonshire[2] and the manor of Newhall near Hornchurch in Essex.[3] He also had a home in the City of London off Aldermanbury, whose location was known as Fountain Court[4] (now part of the Guildhall grounds).
Under the Commonwealth his estates were confiscated by the Committee for Sequestrations, and he had to pay a £1000 fine to regain them.[5]
Under King Charles II, he was appointed a commissioner for tax collection in Leicestershire and Essex.[6]