Gonzalo O'Farrill, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gonzalo O'Farrill

Spanish politician

Date of Birth: 22-Jan-1754

Place of Birth: Havana, Havana Province, Cuba

Date of Death: 19-Jul-1831

Profession: military personnel, politician, soldier

Nationality: Spain, France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Gonzalo O'Farrill y Herrera (1754 in La Habana, Cuba – 1831 in Paris) was a Spanish soldier and politician. He was born in Cuba as the son of O'Farrill y Arriola of Irish descent. In Spain, Gonzalo became (at the time of King Carlos IV of Spain), a lieutenant general of the Royal Spanish Army, Director of the Military College at Puerto de Santa María, Cadiz, Spain, and a Plenipotentiary Minister representing Spain in the Kingdom of Prussia under King Frederic.
He was also a member and President of the Supreme Joint Council of Spain when King Carlos IV went to Bayonne, France to meet with Napoleon I Bonaparte around March 1808. Minister of War under King Carlos IV of Spain, he was for a few days (3-19 March 1808), between two spells in power of Pedro de Cevallos Guerra, Prime Minister of Spain under King José I Bonaparte.
He remained Minister of War under Bonaparte. After the collapse of French power in Spain, he emigrated to France and had all his properties in Cuba confiscated. He died in 1831 and is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery. He had married a widow, Ana Rodríguez de Carassa who already had a child, Pedro Miguel Saenz de Santamaría.