Jorge Loring y Oyarzábal, 1st Marquis of Casa Loring was a Spanish

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and businessman of the 19th century. His grandson

Jorge Loring Martinez Jorge Loring Martinez (Málaga, Spain, October 12, 1889Charles Henry Pope''Loring Genealogy'' (1917), p.313/ref> – Madrid, Spain, September 22, 1936) was a Spanish engineer and entrepreneur, pioneer of civil aviation in that country, and conside ...

created the company ''

Talleres Loring Talleres Loring (Loring Workshops) was a Spanish aeronautical company founded by engineer and entrepreneur Jorge Loring after moving to Madrid. History A predecessor company, Loring Pujol y Cia, had been founded in Barcelona by Jorge Loring ...

'', an

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that produced important

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such as the

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, the Loring R-2 or the

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Biography

Born August 20, 1822 in

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, Jorge was the son of George Loring of

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, and Maria Del Rosario Oyarzabal, of Cadiz. He was a fourth great grandson of

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immigrant Deacon

Thomas Loring Thomas Loring was an early settler of Hingham and Hull, Massachusetts. He was present at some of the key moments in the earliest history of Hingham, Massachusetts. But later " e large Loring families were prominent in the town f Hull and remain ...

.Charles Henry Pope
''Loring Genealogy''
(1917). p. 139-140

Education and citizenship

Like his brothers, he was educated in the United States, where he studied engineering at

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. He held citizenship in the United States and in Spain.

Marriage and family

In 1850 he married Amalia Heredia Livermore of Málaga, herself a daughter of Manuel Heredia and Isabel Livermore. She was "an educated and intelligent woman" raised with an education "typical of the bourgeoisie of the time: refined, strong belief in

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, foreign travel and a flair for fine arts." They had eight children, five of whom became or married Spanish nobility. A grandson,

, excelled as an aviation entrepreneur and inventor. A great grandson, Jorge Loring Miró SJ, is a widely published Spanish Jesuit priest. A third great grand daughter, Vittoria Eugenia Alvarez de Toledo y Marone-Cinzano, is the 7th and current Marquesa de Casa Loring and a cousin, once removed, of King

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of Spain.

Career and title

"He built (or helped build) the first railroad in

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, from Cordova to Málaga." He was created Marquis de Casa Loring in 1856. "He founded the Bank of Málaga and ... founded the newspaper El Correo de Andalucía" and supported metal refining and lead smelting.

Political career

"He lived in Madrid between 1873 and 1890, where he was Liberal MP and senator" for many years.

Legacy

La Concepcion Gardens

Mrs. Amalia Loring and her new husband created Málaga's and named them after their youngest daughter. "La Concepción is one of the most beautiful and important tropical botanical gardens in Spain and one of the best in Europe."Note that their daughter Concepcion was born eighteen years after the garden was reportedly created
La Concepcion
(website) accessed 3 July 2011 The garden was created at the Loring family farm.

Loringiano Museum

In 1859 the Marquis opened a museum to hold an archeological collection he had started. It has now grown to be the present-day Museum of Málaga.

References

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