Manuel Antonio Warnes y Durango (1727–1802) was a Spanish military man, who served as regidor and

alcalde Alcalde (; ) is the traditional Spanish municipal magistrate, who had both judicial and administrative functions. An ''alcalde'' was, in the absence of a corregidor, the presiding officer of the Castilian '' cabildo'' (the municipal council) a ...

of Buenos Aires during the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.

Biography

Warnes was born in Cartagena (

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), the son of Patricio Benito Warnes Geer and Juana María Durango y Atienza, belonging to a family of Irish, Flemish and Spanish origin. He had arrived in port of Buenos Aires from Cadiz as Master of the French

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"Amable Maria". In 1756, he was appointed as alcalde of second vote (vice-mayor) of Buenos Aires, being designated alcalde in first vote in 1775 and 1788. His great great grandfather was Salomón Warnes (born in Connacht), banished from Ireland for religious reasons, he had settled in

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, at the beginning of the 17th century.

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