Captain
Francisco de Cabrera
Vice-Mayor of Buenos Aires
In office
1762–1763
MonarchCharles III of Spain
Preceded byAntonio de Velasco
Succeeded byIgnacio de Irigoyen y Echenique
Procurador General of Buenos Aires
In office
1761–1762
Preceded byAntonio de Velasco Quintana
Succeeded byEugenio Lerdo de Tejada
Personal details
Born
Francisco de Cabrera y Dávalos

1718
Granada, Spain
Died1787
Buenos Aires, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
Occupationarmy
politician
merchant
Professionjurist
Signature
Military service
Allegiance Spanish Empire
Branch/serviceSpanish Army
Years of service1738–1767
RankCaptain
UnitFuerte de Buenos Aires

Francisco de Cabrera (1718–1787) was a Spanish merchant and politician,[1] who served as regidor, alcalde and prosecutor of Buenos Aires during the Viceroyalty of Peru.[2]

Biography

Cabrera was born in Granada, Andalusia (Spain), son of Francisco de Cabrera and María Ignacia Dávalos.[3] He was married on June 13, 1741, with to Antonia Isabel de Saavedra,[4] born in Buenos Aires, daughter of Bernardo de Saavedra and Ana de la Palma Lobatón.[5]

In the position of procurator of the city, Cabrera made important services to the community of Buenos Aires, defending the interests of its inhabitants and the Council.[6] He integrated the distinguished group of influential neighbors of the viceroyalty, that included Gregorio Ramos Mexía and Francisco Antonio de Escalada, two of the most important politicians of Buenos Aires.[7]

Exercising the position of mayor of Buenos Aires, he participated in the debates about the wars against Portugal and England (Anglo-Spanish War). On March 22, 1762, the City Council entrusted him to inform the King of Spain of the funeral honors performed in Buenos Aires to the Queen Maria Amalia of Saxony.[8]

Francisco de Cabrera and his wife were the parents of Toribia María Francisca Cabrera, married to his relative Cornelio Saavedra, an Argentine patriot, who was appointed president of the Primera Junta of government of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata in 1810.[9] His grandson, Pedro Medrano Cabrera,[10] was Deputy in the Congress of Tucumán of the July 9, 1816.[11]

References

  1. ↑ La Revista de Buenos Aires, Navarro Viola y Quesada, 1870
  2. ↑ Ensayo sobre los artífices de la platería en el Buenos Aires colonial, Fernando Márquez Miranda, 1933
  3. ↑ Genealogía, hombres de mayo, Instituto Argentino de Ciencias Genealógicas, 1961
  4. ↑ Matrimonios 1656–1762, Nuestra Señora de La Merced
  5. ↑ Saavedra, el hombre de Mayo, Ediciones Culturales Argentinas, Ministerio de Cultura y Educación, 1980
  6. ↑ Sobre el Perú, José Agustín Puente Candamo, 2002, ISBN 9789972424724
  7. ↑ Publicaciones, Volúmenes 1–3, Universidad Nacional. Instituto de Historia de la Medicina, 1938
  8. ↑ Acuerdos del extinguido Cabildo de Buenos Aires, publicados bajo la dirección del director del Archivo general de la nación ... Serie I-IV; 1589–1821, Eugenio Corbet France, Augusto S. Mallié, Héctor C. Quesada, 1927
  9. ↑ Saavedra: biografía escrita por encargo de la Comisión Nacional de Homenaje al prócer, Juan Rómulo Fernández, 1929
  10. ↑ El superintendente Manuel Ignacio Fernández (1778–1783), Ricardo Rees Jones – Instituto de Investigaciones de Historia del Derecho, 1992, ISBN 9789509494039
  11. ↑ Historia, Issues 42–45, Argentina, 1966
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