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Salvador Bermúdez de Castro
2nd Duke of Ripalda
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Mayor of Madrid | |
In office 25 July 1903 – 22 December 1904 |
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Preceded by | Vicente Cabeza de Vaca |
Succeeded by | Gonzalo Figueroa y Torres |
Minister of State | |
In office 27 October 1913 – 9 December 1915 |
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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 |
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Preceded by | Juan Alvarado y del Saz |
Succeeded by | Manuel García Prieto |
In office 20 July 1920 – 14 August 1921 |
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Prime Minister | multiple |
Preceded by | Manuel González-Hontoria |
Succeeded by | Manuel González-Hontoria |
46th Governor of the Bank of Spain | |
In office 14 March 1922 – 2 January 1923 |
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Preceded by | Luis Sedó |
Succeeded by | Tirso Rodrigáñez y Sagasta |
Seat O of the Real Academia Española | |
In office 5 May 1935 – 20 January 1945 |
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Preceded by | Julián Ribera |
Succeeded by | Félix de Llanos y Torriglia |
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Salvador Bermúdez de Castro y O'Lawlor
1 November 1863 Madrid, Spain |
Died | 20 January 1945 Madrid, Spain |
(aged 81)
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.
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).
He was the author of numerous works including "De la Revolución a la Restauración", "Spain since 1815" and the autobiographical "Mis Recuerdos 1801-1901".
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"Civil War that served as ad-hoc legitimation for the 1936 coup d'etat.
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In Spanish: Salvador Bermúdez de Castro O'Lawlor para niños