Eduardo de Figueroa y Alonso-Martínez, 8th Count of Yebes (20 September 1899 – 11 July 1984) was a Spanish aristocrat, architect, politician and writer. He was a member of parliament for Barbastro, fellow of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and president of the National Board of Trophy Hunting Homologation.[1]
The Count of Yebes | |
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| Born | 20 September 1899 Madrid, Spain |
| Died | 11 July 1984 (aged 84) Madrid, Spain |
| Spouse | Carmen Muñoz y Roca-Tallada
(m. 1922) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parents |
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Early life
editHe was born in Madrid as the sixth child of Alvaro de Figueroa y Torres, 1st Count of Romanones, who was Prime Minister of Spain, and his wife Casilda Alonso-Martínez y Martín, the daughter of Manuel Alonso Martínez.[1] He had six siblings: Casilda, Luis, Álvaro, Carlos, José and Agustín. His brother Álvaro was Mayor of Madrid between 1921 and 1922, José won a silver medal in polo at the 1920 Summer Olympics and Agustín was a successful movie director, and the father-in-law of singer Raphael.
Hunting
editYebes has gone down as one of the most well-known hunters of the 20th century.[2] His book Veinte Años de Caza Mayor (Twenty Years of Big Game Hunting) was prologued by Ortega y Gasset and is still considered one of the gems of hunting literature.[3] He was described as "tough and wiry and willing to work for his trophy despite being a nobleman".[4]
Amongst his achievements are harvesting the current world record giant sable antelope in Angola in 1949, currently on show at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales.[4][5][1] He was also the first to document the existence of the Iberian ibex in the Penibaetic System.[6]
Yebes was a passionate roe deer hunter since his finca, El Robledo, had a plentiful population.
He was made Honorific President of the Royal Hunting Federation of Spain and founded the National Board of Trophy Hunting Homologation with fellow hunters in 1950, a body of which he was the first president.[1]
He died in Madrid in July 1984.[7]
Issue
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On 3 July 1922, he married Carmen Muñoz y Roca-Tallada at San Fermín de los Navarros in Madrid. They had two children:
- Mercedes de Figueroa y Muñoz (b. 1924)
- María del Carmen de Figueroa y Muñoz, 9th Countess of Yebes (b. 1929)
Title
editSelected works
edit- 20 Años de Caza Mayor, Plus Ultra, Madrid, 1948.
References
edit- ^ a b c d Priego (2017). p. 173
- ^ Walker (2004). p. 104
- ^ Stephen Bodio, Sportsman's Library: 100 Essential, Engaging, Offbeat, and Occasionally Odd Fishing and Hunting Books for the Adventurous Reader, Rowman & Littlefield (Apr., 2013), p. 210
- ^ a b Walker (2004). p. 105
- ^ Pedro Vaz Pinto, Evolutionary history of the critically endangered giant sable antelope (Hippotragus niger variani): Insights into its phylogeography, population, genetics, demography and conservation, University of Porto (Porto, 2017), p. 9
- ^ Concepción Diez-Pastor Iribas. «Eduardo de Figueroa y Alonso Martínez». Diccionario biográfico español de la Real Academia de la Historia
- ^ ABC Madrid: 14 June 1984
- ^ Revista Hidalguía número 56. Año 1963, p. 50
Bibliography
edit- Priego, Count of (2017). Cazadores Españoles del Siglo XX. Turner Publicaciones. ISBN 978-84-16714-29-2.
- Walker, John Frederick (2004). A Certain Curve of Horn: The Hundred-Year Quest for the Giant Sable Antelope of Angola. Grove Press. ISBN 978-08-02140-68-5.
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