Ignacio Figueroa y Mendieta

Following his father's death, Ignacio inherit the family's vast fortune and companies.^[5]

He earned a seat at the Congress of Deputies for the first time in 1865, replacing the vacant seat left by Manuel García Barzanallana in the district of Guadalajara.^[1] He renewed his seat during the reign of Isabella II in 1865,^[6] and 1867.^[7] He became senator for the first time in the 1867–1868 period.^[8] Durante the reign of Amadeo I, Figueroa was elected as deputy in representation of Puentedeume at the 1872 election.^[9]

Following the Bourbon Restoration, he was elected member of the Congress in the first election that took place in the new regime in 1876, in representation of Guadalajara; appointed as Senator he renounced to his deputy seat in 1877.^[10] He served at the Senate until 1899.^[8]

In 1852, he married Ana de Torres, Viscountess of Irueste (1832–1905), a daughter of José Silvestre de Torres y Tovar, 5th Marquess of Villamejor and Inés de Romo y Bedoya. The marriage formed a union between an affluent bourgeois—him—and an aristocrat in economic hardship,^[11] so he got to enter aristocratic circles.^[5] Together, they spawned one of the most influential families in Spain during the Restoration period.^[12] There children included:

• Francisca de Paula Figueroa y Torres (1855–1927), who married Pedro Díez de Rivera y Muro, 5th Count of Almodóvar.^[13]
• José Figueroa y Torres (1857–1901),^[14] who succeeded his mother as the Viscount of Irueste; he married María Rosario Loring y Heredia, the third daughter of Jorge Loring, 1st Marquis of Casa Loring and Amalia Heredia Livermore, in 1883.^[15]
• Álvaro de Figueroa y Torres (1863–1950), the Prime Minister of Spain who became the 1st Count of Romanones; he married Casilda Alonso Martínez, the daughter of Manuel Alonso Martínez, the Minister of Grace and Justice, in 1888.^[16]
• Gonzalo Figueroa y Torres (1861–1921),^[17] the Mayor of Madrid who became the 1st Duke of Las Torres; he married María Manuela O'Neill y Salamanca in 1892.^[14]
• Rodrigo Figueroa y Torres (1866–1929), who was created the 1st Duke of Tovar; he married Amelia de Bermejillo y Martínez-Negrete, a lady in waiting of Queen Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, in 1891.^[12]

He died in Madrid on 11 March 1899.^[1][8]

Citations

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