Mariano Roca de Togores y Carrasco, 1st Marquess of Molins

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and 1st Viscount of Rocamora (17 August 1812, in

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, Spain – 4 September 1889, in Lequeitio,

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, Spain) was a Spanish

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during the reign of

Alfonso XII Alfonso XII (Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo; 28 November 185725 November 1885), also known as El Pacificador or the Peacemaker, was King of Spain from 29 December 1874 to his death in 1885 ...

. His title takes its name from the locality of Molins,

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. Roca de Togores was elected to seat ''K'' of the Real Academia Española, he took up his seat on 1 January 1841. He was the director of the royal academy between 1865 and 1875.

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