Miguel Ricardo de Ãlava y Esquivel
Miguel Ricardo de Álava Esquivel (* July 7, 1771 in Vitoria- Gasteiz, † July 14, 1843 in Barèges, France ) was a Spanish general and diplomat.
Biography
He served initially in the fleet, then in the army, in 1808 joined the French, but left after the battle of Albuera 1811 the thing Joseph Napoleon, stepped to the side of the English, was Wellington's aide and distinguished himself in the battles against the Ferner French out. Wellington raised him after the storming of Vitoria -General.
After the return of Ferdinand VII he was imprisoned on the operation of the Camarilla because liberal outlook and freed only at the insistence of Wellington and by bribing the courtiers from the Basque cities. At the request of the Prince of Orange, he was then Spanish ambassador in The Hague, but in 1819 removed as suspicious.
In 1820 he joined the revolution and worked for restoration of the constitution of 1812, fought in 1822 against the royal guard and negotiated in 1823 in Cádiz on behalf of the government with Angoulême. In 1822 he was elected as a representative of Álava Member of Parliament ( Congreso de los Deputies ) and was also in May 1822 and President of the Congress of Deputies. The revenge of Ferdinand he eluded by fleeing to Gibraltar, then to England.
There and in the Netherlands, he lived with the support of his friends, until he was recalled by the Queen Christina and 1834 raised to the peer of the realm. Under the government of Martínez de la Rosa, he was ambassador in London, gave this post but in 1835 again and dedicated himself to the parliamentary activity.
On September 14, 1835, he was the successor of José María de Llano Ruiz de Saravia Queipo Prime Minister of Spain (Presidente de Gobierno ). However, he lost this office eleven days later to the former Treasury Minister ( Ministro de Hacienda ) Juan Álvarez Mendizábal.
After a new revolution of the Spanish government forced upon the constitution of 1812, refused to de Álava, in contradiction with its past, its acceptance, left the civil service and died in 1843 in the Baths of Barèges.
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