José Miguel de Carvajal-Vargas y Manrique de Lara Polanco, 2nd Duke of San Carlos, (8 May 1771 in

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– 27 September 1828 in París), 6th conde de Castillejo and 9th conde del Puerto, 10th "Correo Mayor de las Indias", was the son of Mariano Joaquín de Carvajal-Vargas y Brun, 8th conde del Puerto, (deceased April 1796), and Maria Manrique de Lara Polanco y Carrillo, daughter of the II Marquis of Lara, the grand son of Fermín Francisco de Carvajal-Vargas y Alarcón, born in

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, 1st duke of San Carlos and

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, being a Secretary of State, some sort of Prime Minister of Spain under the Absolutist Restauration in the times of King

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, (1784–1833). He was a member of the

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from 1814 to 1828 and, three times

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to the King. He was

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during part of the tear 1807, and Spanish ambassador in Paris, London and Lisbonne, Knight of the Military

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and other knighthoods in France, Naples, Prussia, Hungary, and Russia. In 1813 he drafted the

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. He was also a Director of the problematic Banco de San Carlos, founded in 1782 by the French – Spanish financier

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, in 1821, aged 17, Vicente Pio Osorio de Moscoso, (1801–1864), aged 20 and the holder of 14 Grandees of Spain.

Some references

A rather skimpy complementary but not well-known list of Viceroys and Spanish Governors or Representatives in Navarre of the Central Power in Madrid, rather good for the period 1512–1843.: https://web.archive.org/web/20171010015723/http://www.asasve.es/portal/index.php?mod=article&cat=articulos&article=63 {{DEFAULTSORT:Carvajal-Vargas y Manrique de Lara, Jose Miguel de 1771 births 1828 deaths Dukes of Spain Spanish captain generals Spanish diplomats Knights of the Order of Alcántara Members of the Royal Spanish Academy Government ministers of Spain Grandees of Spain Ambassadors of Spain to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland