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Francisco Álvarez Campana
Francisco Álvarez Campana (1707–1773) was a Spanish merchant and politician, who served during the Viceroyalty of Peru as Regidor and Attorney General of Buenos Aires. He was the founder of the Colegio de Huérfanas de Buenos Aires, an educational institute dedicated to the teaching of orphan girls. The city of Campana in the Province of Buenos Aires was founded in 1885 in honor of Francisco Álvarez Campana, owner of those lands towards the middle of the 18th century. Biography He was born in Cádiz, Spain, the son of Bernardo Alvarez Campana y Montes de Oca and Josefa Manuela Vega y Olivera, belonging to illustrious Andalusian families from El Puerto de Santa María and the Isla de León. He studied in his native country and settled in Buenos Aires around the beginning of 1750, holding various positions related to charitable entities, including as Hermano Mayor of the Hermandad de la Santa Caridad of Buenos Aires in 1754. That same year he requested to the Council of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don (honorific)
Don (; ; pt, Dom, links=no ; all from Latin ', roughly 'Lord'), abbreviated as D., is an honorific prefix primarily used in Spain and Hispanic America, and with different connotations also in Italy, Portugal and its former colonies, and Croatia. ''Don'' is derived from the Latin ''dominus'': a master of a household, a title with background from the Roman Republic in classical antiquity. With the abbreviated form having emerged as such in the Middle Ages, traditionally it is reserved for Catholic clergy and nobles, in addition to certain educational authorities and persons of distinction. ''Dom'' is the variant used in Portuguese. The female equivalent is Doña (), Donna (), Doamnă (Romanian) and Dona () abbreviated D.ª, Da., or simply D. It is a common honorific reserved for women, especially mature women. In Portuguese "Dona" tends to be less restricted in use to women than "Dom" is to men. In Britain and Ireland, especially at Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, the word is us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |