Diego de Alvear y Ponce de León, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Diego de Alvear y Ponce de León

Spanish military soldier and politician

Date of Birth: 13-Nov-1749

Place of Birth: Montilla, Andalusia, Spain

Date of Death: 15-Jan-1830

Profession: military personnel, politician, geographer

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Diego de Alvear y Ponce de León (1749–1830) was a Spanish military commander and politician. A grandson of the founder of the "Alvear" wine company of Montilla, he was the father of the Argentine politician Carlos María de Alvear, grandfather of another Argentine politician, Torcuato de Alvear, and great-grandfather of Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, the president of Argentina between 1922 and 1928. He took the name of his grandfather, Diego de Alvear y Escalera, the founder of Alvear.
Ponce de León belonged, therefore, to an important family of wine growers in Andalusia.