Manuel Allende
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8 March 1887
- Businessman
- Sports leader
Manuel Allende | |
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| Born | Manuel Allende Riverós 8 March 1887 Salto Department, Uruguay |
| Died | 10 August 1944 (aged 57) Lloret de Mar, Catalonia, Spain |
| Citizenship | Spanish |
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| Known for | 14th president of RCD Espanyol |
| 9th President of RCD Espanyol | |
| In office 1918–1919 | |
| Preceded by | José María Bernadas |
| Succeeded by | Victorià de la Riva |
Manuel Allende Riverós (8 March 1887 – 10 August 1944) was a Uruguayan businessman and sports leader. He was the 9th president of RCD Espanyol between 1918 and 1919.[1] On a professional level, he was a maritime merchant who became rich during the First World War by transporting groceries across the Atlantic Ocean, thanks to a fleet of more than 70 ships.[2][3]
During the First World War, Allende founded an important merchant fleet with more than 70 units, for the transportation of supplies from Spanish America, especially Argentina and Uruguay, to Spain.[2] Later, he moved to the latter, where his commercial operations were guaranteed by different banking establishments, but when the Armistice of 11 November 1918 occurred, unexpectedly, Allende suffered such a tremendous economic collapse that he was ruined along with his family collaborators.[2] In recognition of his efforts to promote commercial relations between Uruguay and other South American countries with Spain, the Spanish Government awarded him the Grand Cross of Naval Merit in 1919.[2][3][4]
Allende was the founder of the Madrid newspaper El Fígaro (1918–1920), appointing the Catalan textile industrialist José María de Boét and his brother, Andrés Boét, to the management.[5] He also founded and financed the literary magazine Cosmópolis (1919–1922).[3][5] He founded the Allende Insurance Company, located at Plaça de Catalunya, no. 7 in Barcelona.[3]