- Rómulo O'Farril
Rómulo O'Farrill Jr. (
15 December 1917 –18 May 2006 ) was amulti-millionaire Mexican businessman.His father Rómulo O'Farrill Senior founded the newspaper "
Novedades " and owned the first commercialTV station (XHTV , Canal 4) through his companyTelevisión de México partnered with engineerGuillermo González Camarena and businessmenEmilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta andMiguel Alemán Valdés to create the company "Telesistema Mexicano, S.A."later on Mr. Rómulo O'Farrill Jr became partner with Emilio Azcárraga Milmo and Miguel Alemán Velasco and they created TELEVISA also he was the honoraryconsul ofIreland inMexico .Married to Hilda Avila Camacho (r.i.p.), daughter of General
Maximino Ávila Camacho for 60 years, he fathered six children, only four of whom survived.Víctor Hugo, Hilda Gloria, José Antonio and Roberto, have him 10 grand childrenVíctor Hugo Jr., Claudia Lorenza, Ana Paula, Caroline, Josá Antonio Jr., Christian, Francesca, Patrick, Hilda Romy and new born Roberto Jr.External references
* [http://www.irlandeses.org/dilab_ofarrillr.htm O'Farrill, Rómulo Antonio (Jr.) (1917-2006), media entrepreneur in: "Irish Migration Studies in Latin America" 5:1 (March 2007), pp. 82-83.]
Trivia
A bridge and a are named after him.
Trough his life, Romulo helped numerous institutions, as the red cross, orphanages, and children's hospitals etc.
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