Edward Barrington de Fonblanque (18 January 1821[1] – 14 June 1895) was a British historian of English, Irish and Huguenot stock.
In 1854, during the Crimean War, he served as the Deputy-Assistant Commissary-General for the Royal Army Service Corps.
A mention of his work in 1862 stated: "Mr. Edward de Fonblanque's serious, full and conscientious studies of military organization in the various armies of Europe, — made, we believe, under the auspices of the present Earl of Dalhousie, and published about a year ago, — are worth twenty works like Red, White and Blue.
"[4] His 1876 work, Political and Military Episodes in the Latter Half of the Eighteenth Century was devoted to British General John Burgoyne.
[6] He lived in London, but died age 74, in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, where he had gone to stay with a friend after falling ill.[2]