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Salvador Bermúdez de Castro
2nd Duke of Ripalda
Portrait by Kaulak
Mayor of Madrid
In office
25 July 1903 – 22 December 1904
Preceded by Vicente Cabeza de Vaca
Succeeded by Gonzalo Figueroa y Torres
Minister of State
In office
27 October 1913 – 9 December 1915
Monarch Alfonso XIII
Prime Minister Eduardo Dato
Preceded by Antonio López Muñoz
Succeeded by Miguel Villanueva y Gómez
In office
11 June 1917 – 13 November 1917
Preceded by Juan Alvarado y del Saz
Succeeded by Manuel García Prieto
In office
20 July 1920 – 14 August 1921
Prime Ministermultiple
Preceded by Manuel González-Hontoria
Succeeded byManuel González-Hontoria
46th Governor of the Bank of Spain
In office
14 March 1922 – 2 January 1923
Preceded by Luis Sedó [ es]
Succeeded by Tirso Rodrigáñez y Sagasta [ es]
Seat O of the Real Academia Española
In office
5 May 1935 – 20 January 1945
Preceded by Julián Ribera
Succeeded by Félix de Llanos y Torriglia [ es]
Personal details
Born
Salvador Bermúdez de Castro y O'Lawlor

(1863-11-01)1 November 1863
Madrid, Spain
Died20 January 1945(1945-01-20) (aged 81)
Madrid, Spain

Salvador Bermúdez de Castro y O'Lawlor, 2nd Duke of Ripalda, Marquis of Lema (1 November 1863, in Madrid – 20 January 1945) was a Spanish noble, politician and lawyer who served as Minister of State during the reign of Alfonso XIII.

Biography

He was born in Madrid, the son of Manuel Bermúdez de Castro y Díez (1811–1870) a senator and Minister for the Interior and Foreign Affairs, and María de la Encarnación O’Lawlor y Caballero (1830-1908), youngest daughter of Joseph O'Lawlor (1768–1850), an Irish-born Spanish general and governor of Granada. His cousin Richard Lalor was an Irish nationalist member of the British House of Commons. He married María, a daughter of Joaquín Sánchez de Toca y Calvo and María Ballester y Bueno. [1]

The Duke was a prominent Spanish author, conservative politician and nobleman. He inherited the Dukedom of Ripalda and the Marquessate of Lema from his paternal uncle. A deputy for Oviedo (1891–1923), he served as Minister for Foreign Affairs 1919–21, 1917, 1913–15; Mayor of Madrid 1903–4 and Governor of the Bank of Spain (1922–3). [2] [3]

He was the author of numerous works including "De la Revolución a la Restauración", "Spain since 1815" and the autobiographical "Mis Recuerdos 1801-1901". [4]

Late in life, he was one of the 22 jurists who signed the "opinion on the illegitimacy under the operating powers of the 18th of 1936 July" [ es], a report drafted in 1938 and commissioned by the Francoist faction during the Civil War that served as ad-hoc legitimation for the 1936 coup d'etat. [5]

References

  1. ^ Agirreazkuenaga, Joseba (2016) [2015]. "The Parliamentarians Elected in the Basque Country's Cuban Connection, 1812–1939". In Douglass, William A. (ed.). Basques in Cuba (PDF). Reno, NV: Center for Basque Studies Press. p. 58. ISBN  9781877802980.
  2. ^ Gonzalo P. Alzuria "Diccionario akal de historiadores españoles contemporáneos (1840-1980)" on Google Books
  3. ^ Carlos Darde & Josep Armengoli i Segu "El poder de la influencia: Geografía del caciquismo en España (1875-1923)" 2001 p. 76 on Google Books
  4. ^ "Salvador Bermúdez de Castro - letra O". Real Academia Española (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 May 2023.
  5. ^ ↑ En el Apéndice I al Dictamen de la Comisión sobre ilegitimidad de poderes actuantes el 18 de julio de 1936 (Editora Nacional; Barcelona, 1939) los sublevados publicaron acusaciones de fraude y de coacciones durante las elecciones de febrero de 1936 en Cáceres, La Coruña, Lugo, Pontevedra y otras provincias con el objetivo de legitimar el Golpe de Estado