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Identification

Type:

Person

Preferred form:

Porcel Ruiz, Antonio (1755-1832)Other forms

Fechas de existencia:

Mairena (Nevada, Granada, España) 1755-06-14 - Madrid (España) 1832-01-03

History:

Spanish politician and minister. He studied Law at the Colegio de San Bartolomé and Santiago at the University of Granada. Son of Juan Porcel Fernández and Ana Román Ruiz del Pino. Firstly, he got married to María Manuela Rubio Ambiela, a woman from Zaragoza, and later to Isabel Lobo Mendieta, daughter of Joaquín Lobo, life-long councillor of Ronda. He was the nephew of the poet José Antonio Porcel Salablanca.

He got in the administration system on January 12, 1784 as the 6th officer of the Secretary of State and the Universal Office of the Indies, becoming a senior officer in the Universal Office of the Indies. Senior officer of the Secretary of State and Office of Justice of the Indies, but also director and general accountant of the temporalities that dealt with the ex-Jesuits of the Indies. He was also curator of the Banco de San Carlos and member of the Treasury Commission.

Elected in November 1810 deputy for Granada, he could not leave the territory, since it was occupied by the French, who had closely watched him and had confiscated part of his property. Detained by order of Eguía, he was liberated by the people of the revolution in 1820, and immediately became Minister for Overseas Territories, on 9 March 1820. He belonged to the Royal and Distinguished Spanish Order of Carlos III and to Goya's circle of friends. He was an academic of the Royal Spanish Academy.

Liberal Triennium, 1820-1823

Date of the event: 1820 - 1823

Cortes de Cádiz, 1810-1813

Date of the event: 1810 - 1813