Guillermo Landa y Escandón
Guillermo Landa y Escandón | |
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Governor of the Federal District | |
In office 8 October 1900 – 7 December 1900 | |
Preceded by | Rafael Rebollar |
Succeeded by | Ramón Corral |
Governor of the Federal District | |
In office 3 January 1903 – 2 May 1911 | |
Preceded by | Ramón Corral |
Succeeded by | Samuel García Cuéllar |
Personal details | |
Born | 2 May 1842 Mexico City, Mexico |
Died | March 1, 1927 Cannes, France | (aged 84)
Spouse | Sofía de Ossio y del Barrio |
Education | Stonyhurst College |
Guillermo Landa y Escandón (2 May 1842 – 1 March 1927) was a Mexican politician and businessman. He was governor of the Federal District of Mexico.[1] He was one of the Porfirio Díaz administration's Científicos.
Early life
[edit]Landa was born on 2 May 1842 as the son of José María Landa Martínez (1811–1876), a member of the Council of Notables of the Second Mexican Empire, and María Francisca Escandón Garmendia (1815–1869), a Lady-in-waiting to the Empress Charlotte (wife of Maximilian I of Mexico).[2][3]
He studied at Stonyhurst College, the Jesuit independent school on the Stonyhurst Estate, Lancashire, England, from 1858 to 1862.
Career
[edit]A prominent Mexican politician and businessman, Landa served as the governor of the Federal District of Mexico.[1]
Personal life
[edit]![](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/G._De_Landa_%28Escandron%29_and_wife_%26_Lady_Patricia_Moore_LCCN2014715303.jpg/220px-G._De_Landa_%28Escandron%29_and_wife_%26_Lady_Patricia_Moore_LCCN2014715303.jpg)
Guillermo was married to Sofía de Ossio y del Barrio (1867–1932).[4] Together, they were the parents of:
- María de la Luz de Landa y Osio (1880–1969), who married Sebastian Bernardo de Mier in 1910.[5] After his death in 1917, she married William Douglas Arbuthnot-Leslie, 13th of Warthill. As a wedding present, he bought them Lickleyhead Castle.[6] After they divorced in 1944, she married Capt. Ronald Edward Warlow.
- Guillermo "Billy" de Landa y Escandon (1894–1948), a playboy who married British socialite Kathleen Moore, Countess of Drogheda (former wife of Henry Moore, 10th Earl of Drogheda), in 1922. They divorced in 1929.[7][8][9]
- Sofía de Landa y Osio (1898–1964), who married Guillermo Limantur y Cañas.[10]
- Carmen de Landa y Osio (b. 1901), who married Juan Francisco de Béistegui Yturbe.[11]
- José Manuel "Pepe" de Landa y Osio, who married Virginia (née Willys) de Aguirre, former wife of Argentine rancher Luis Marcelino de Aguirre,[12] and daughter of the former U.S. Ambassador to Poland, John Willys.[13]
Landa died in Cannes, France on 1 March 1927.[14]
Descendants
[edit]He is a great-great-grandparent of actress Rose Leslie and attorney Alexander Clark.[15]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Olvera Mijares, Raúl (2011). Fondo de Cultura Económica (ed.). Científicos porfiristas. México.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Hermosillo, Margarita Urías (1 September 2017). Obra histórica (in Spanish). Universidad Veracruzana. p. 168. ISBN 978-607-502-594-0. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
- ^ Valles, Javier; Arenas, Judith Licea de (24 March 2014). Imágenes Del Segundo Imperio Mexicano 1864 – 1867. Palibrio. p. 162. ISBN 978-1-4633-4597-6. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
- ^ Gossman, Rafael Fierro (4 November 2012). "Grandes casas de México: La casa de don Guillermo De Landa y Escandón". grandescasasdemexico.blogspot.com. Grandes casas de México. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
- ^ "MRS. E.W. RICHARDSON IS MARRIED IN LONDON; Former Evelyn Weil Is Bride of Sebastian de Mier". The New York Times. 4 May 1939. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
- ^ Coyle, Catherine (5 March 2019). "This Life: Sarah and Will Leslie, Wardhill Castle | Homes & Interiors Scotland". Homes & Interiors Scotland. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
- ^ "Turtle Bunbury – Award-winning travel writer, historian and author based in Ireland". turtlebunbury.com. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
- ^ "COUNTESS OF DROGHEDA, SPORTSWOMAN, TO WED Divorcee, Noted for Her Aviation Exploits, to Marry Guillemo Delanda, Polo Player". The New York Times. 31 Aug 1922. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
- ^ "EX-COUNTESS GETS DIVORCE; Former Lady Drogheda Gets Decree From De Landa". The New York Times. 17 April 1929. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
- ^ Loaeza, Guadalupe; Teresa, Guillermo Tovar de (1995). Manual de la gente bien (in Spanish). Plaza & Janés. pp. 170–171. ISBN 978-968-11-0164-0. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
- ^ Morales, Vicente; Caballero, Manuel (1908). El señor Root en Mexico: cronica de la visita hecha en octubre de 1907 al pueblo y al gobierno de la República mexicana, por su excelencia el Honorable señor Elihu Root, secretario de estado del gobierno de los Estados Unidos de América (in Spanish). "Arte y letras. p. 79. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
- ^ "U.S. Heiress Weds". The Daily Herald. 27 May 1929. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
- ^ Tnias, uuuuu I. Special to THE Niw YORK (11 March 1933). "VIRGINIA DE AGUIRRE ENGAGED TO MARRY; Troth of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Willys's Daughter to Jose de Landa Announced*". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
- ^ Tablada, José Juan (1988). Los días y las noches de París. Crónicas parisienses (in Spanish). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Estudios Literarios. p. 220. ISBN 978-968-36-0303-6. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
- ^ "'Juego de Tronos': Descubrimos los orígenes aristocráticos de Rose Leslie ante su boda con Kit Harington" (in Spanish). Antena 3. 30 March 2021.