Matilde Irene Pacheco Stewart (September 20, 1854 – February 13, 1926) was the
First Lady of Uruguay First Lady of Uruguay (Spanish: ''Primera Dama de Uruguay'') is the unofficial and protocol title of the wife of the President of Uruguay, and hostess of Suarez Residence. The first lady is not an elected position, carries no official duties and b ...
at the beginning of the 20th century.
Biography
Daughter of
Manuel Pacheco y Obes (1813–1869), a brother of
Melchor Pacheco y Obes; her mother, Anne Stewart Agell, was a sister of
Duncan Stewart.
Matilde Pacheco married Ruperto Michaelsson Batlle (a nephew of
Lorenzo Batlle y Grau
Lorenzo Cristóbal Manuel Batlle y Grau (August 10, 1810 in Montevideo – May 8, 1887 in Montevideo) was the president of Uruguay from 1868 to 1872.
Family background and early career
He was the son of a wealthy merchant loyal to the Spanis ...
) in 1872, with whom she had five children: Matilde, Ruperto, Juan Luis, Guillermo, and Carlos Michaelsson Pacheco. Afterwards she married in 1894 with a cousin of her first husband,
José Batlle y Ordóñez
José Pablo Torcuato Batlle y Ordóñez ( or ; 23 May 1856 in Montevideo, Uruguay – 20 October 1929), nicknamed ''Don Pepe'', was a prominent Uruguayan politician, who served two terms as President of Uruguay for the Colorado Party. He wa ...
, with whom she also had five children:
César (1885);
Rafael
Rafael may refer to:
* Rafael (given name) or Raphael, a name of Hebrew origin
* Rafael, California
* Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Israeli manufacturer of weapons and military technology
* Hurricane Rafael, a 2012 hurricane
Fiction
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(1887); Amalia Ana (1892); Ana Amalia (1894); and
Lorenzo (1897).
Bibliography
*
Mercedes Vigil: ''Matilde, la mujer de Batlle''. Planeta, 2005,
References
1854 births
1926 deaths
People from Montevideo
Uruguayan people of Spanish descent
Uruguayan people of Scottish descent
First ladies of Uruguay
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