- Eduardo Dato e Iradier
Eduardo Dato e Iradier (
A Coruña , 12 August 1856 –assassinated inMadrid , 8 March 1921). Three times Spanish Prime Minister (or President of the Minister's Council), 103rd from 27 October 1913 to 9 December 1915, 106th from 11 June 1917 to 3 November 1917, and 114th from 28 April 1920 to 8 March 1921 (official end of term on 12 March), eleven times a Minister and four timesPresident of theSpanish Congress of Deputies .Career
Born in
A Coruña ,Spain , son of Carlos Dato y Granados (himself the son of Carlos DatoCamacho y Marín and wife Cayetana RupertaGranados y García, de Vivancos yAcosta ) and wife Rosa Lorenza Iradier y Arce, of Galician descent, he moved with his family toMadrid while still young. He obtained a degree inLaw in 1875 and opened his law office two years later. Elected to the Spanish parliament in 1883, he became Under-secretary for the Ministry of the Interior in 1892.He held the position of
Minister of the Interior andMinister of Justice over the next fifteen years. In 1907, he ran for and won the position ofMayor ("Alcalde ") ofMadrid . In 1910, he entered the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. In 1913 he became Prime Minister of Spain for the first time. In 1915, he left that position, but would return to it for a short while in 1917. He became the 230thMinister for Foreign Affairs from 22 March 1918 to 9 November 1918. Then he moved to the post ofMinister of State and stayed there until 1920, when he led the government as Prime Minister again. He was shot by Catalan anarchists as he left the parliament building in Madrid. This was the second murder of a Spanish prime minister in less than a decade; in 1912Jose Canalejas had been killed similarly.Dato was a member of the International Permanent Court in
The Hague (he becameVice-President in 1913), member of theInternational Law Institute , administrator of the bank firm 'Banco Hipotecario' and President of the National Institute of Social Security, the Council of Public Instruction and the Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation. The KingAlfonso XIII of Spain posthumously bestowed theDuchy of Dato to his widow.Decorations
He also received the following
decoration s: theChain of theOrder of Charles III and Saint Fernando ,Knight Grand Cross of the First Class of theOrder of St. Gregory the Great of theHoly See andGrand Cross of the Order of Christ ofPortugal . He was also made the 340thGrand Cross of theOrder of the Tower and Sword ofPortugal . After his death and for that impeadment and in his honour, his wife was granted the title of 1stDuchess of Dato.Marriage and children
He married
María del Carmen de Barrenechea y Montegui, 1st Duchess of Dato ,Dame of the Order of Noble Dames of Queen Maria Luisa of Spain andGrand Cross of the Order of Beneficence ofSpain , of Basque descent (-Madrid , 1926), daughter of Juan José de Barrenechea y Urdampilleta (himself the son of Pedro de Barrenechea y Zubea and wife María Ignacia de Urdampilleta y Lagarto) and wife Micaela Montegui y Mercaide (herself the daughter of José Manuel Montegui and wife María de la Concepción Mercaide), and had only three daughters:
*Isabel Dato y Barrenechea, 2nd Duchess of Dato , unmarried and without issue
*María del Carmen Dato y Barrenechea, 3rd Duchess of Dato (Madrid , 6 December 1885 - 1954), married to EugenioEspinosa de los Monteros y Bermejillo, and had two sons:
** "Eduardo Espinosa de los Monteros y Dato"
** "Eugenio Espinosa de los Monteros y Dato"
* María de la Concepción Dato y Barrenechea (Madrid , 2 May 1890 -Madrid , 16 September 1973), married inParis , 25 April 1922 toErnesto de Zulueta y Isasi , of theMarquess es ofÁlava Viscount s of Casa Blanca (Bilbao , 26 April 1892 -Madrid , 9 September 1969), a SpanishDiplomat , and had issueExternal links
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10483906&pt Eduardo Dato e Iradier's Gravesite]
* [http://www.geneall.net/H/per_page.php?id=467707 Eduardo Dato e Iradier]ee also
* Ribera, José António Moya, "Costados", N.º 81
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