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Ciriaco González Carvajal
Ciriaco González Carvajal | |
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 Anonymous portrait of Ciriaco González Carvajal, 18th century (Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Tepotzotlán, Mexico). |
Ciriaco González Carvajal (Seville, April 17, 1745 – after 1828) was a Spanish jurist and politician.
Biography
He was born in Seville on April 17, 1745, into a well-to-do family. He was the brother of Tomás González Carvajal (1753–1834).
He studied at the College of San Dionisio of Theologians and Jurists of Granada, where he enrolled in 1760 and remained for four years. He then moved on to the University of Granada and graduated as a Bachelor of Canon Law and later as a Licentiate.
In 1777 he traveled to the Philippines, where he was director of the Economic Society of this city, created in 1781. In 1786 he was appointed Intendant of the Philippines, and while he was an Oidor in the Real Audiencia of Manila, he proposed supplying Spain's settlements in California from Manila, bringing otter pelts back to Manila. He envisioned tanning them at Lampon Bay, thereby developing the Philippines economically. This plan was ultimately annulled by the Real Compañía de Filipinas.[1]
In 1786 he had married María Luisa González de Rivera, a criolla from Manila. Various circumstances prevented his departure, and it was not until June 4, 1790, that he was able to take up his new post, where he remained until January 1810. From 1790 he was Senior Oidor of the Real Audiencia of Mexico and later, after his return to Seville in 1810, Secretary of the Office of the Council and Chamber of the Indies.
Ciriaco González Carvajal is known mainly as the principal promoter of the creation of the Spanish National Lottery, "a means of increasing the revenues of the public treasury without harm to taxpayers," inspired by the one that had already been operating in Mexico since 1771. It was approved by the Cortes of Cádiz on November 23, 1811, and the people dubbed it the "Modern Lottery," to distinguish it from the "Primitive Lottery" established in 1763.
In 1812 he served the Regency as interim Secretary of State and of the Office of the Government of Overseas, during the absence of the titleholder: from June 23, 1812 (Gazeta 06/27/1812) to October 23, 1812 (Gazeta 11/30/1812).
Ciriaco González Carvajal spent the last stage of his life in Seville and was a full member of the Royal Sevillian Academy of Good Letters. Several of his dissertations from that period survive, on subjects related to the history and natural history of Mexico and the Philippines. He was also a corresponding member of the Economic Society of Friends of the Country of the same city.
His exact date of death is unknown, but he was still alive in 1828, since there is a "Retirement classification file" signed by him in that year.
References
- ↑ Salvador Bernabeu (1989) "Sobre intercambios comerciales entre China y California en el último tercio del siglo XVIII. El Oro Suave" in the proceedings of the Primer Simposium Internacional El Extremo Oriente Ibérico, Madrid, Nov. 7–10, 1988. Edited by Francisco de Solano. Madrid: Centro de Estudios Históricos (CSIC) in cooperation with the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, pp. 471–484.
External links
- Díaz-Trechuelo y López-Spínola, Marquesa de Spínola, Lourdes. "Ciriaco González Carvajal". Diccionario Biográfico Español (in español). Real Academia de la Historia.
- Ciriaco González Carvajal at the Real Academia de la Historia.
