Francisco Fernández de Béthencourt (27 July 1850 – 2 April 1916), was a Spanish writer, politician and genealogist. He was a member of parliament for

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and later a senator at the Cortes on behalf of the conservative party. He was born at

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, in the

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, to Francisco-Ramón Fernández-Martínez y Delgado and María de la Concepción de Bethencourt y Mújica. In 1914, he was admitted into the

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. He died 2 years later, 2 April 1916 in Madrid.Real Academia Española (RAE): Fernández de Béthencourt (necrlogía)
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