Mercedes Gallagher
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Mercedes Alicia Gallagher Ortiz de Villate (also Mercedes Gallagher de Park, 1883–1950) was a Peruvian writer and academic.[1]
The daughter of Pedro Daniel Gallagher Robertson-Gibbs and Mercedes Ortíz de Villate y Laurent, she was born in Lima in 1883 and received a private education. Her father was the President of the Chamber of Commerce of Lima, the Club Nacional, the Bank of Peru and London, the Jockey Club of Peru. He was also a member of "The Club of 24 Friends," an organization of influential Peruvian oligarchs.
She married Juan Francisco Bayly Caso (John Francis Bayly Caso) and the couple had two children: Jaime Francisco de Asís Bayly Gallagher (who became the father of the banker Walter Bayly Lllona) and Mariana Teresa Mercedes Bayly Gallagher.
She was widowed in 1911 and then married American Henry James Parks Wilson. The couple had two children together, Hugo Pedro Parks Gallagher, who married the daughter of President Manuel Prado Ugarteche, and Clara Beatriz Parks Gallagher.
