In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Caro and the second or maternal family name is Széchényi.

Don José Caro y Széchényi (21 October 1853 – 1936), styled Count of Peña Ramiro, was a Spanish diplomat who served as Spain's ambassador to Japan.

Early life

Caro was born on 21 October 1853.[a] He was the second son of Pedro Caro y Álvarez de Toledo, 5th Marquis of La Romana (1827–1890), and Countess Erzsébet "Elisabeth" Széchényi de Sárvár et Felsővidék (1827–1910).[1] His elder brother was Pedro Caro y Széchényi, 6th Marquis of La Romana.[1]

His paternal grandparents were Pedro Caro y Salas, 4th Marquis of La Romana (a son of the 3rd Marquis of La Romana) and Dionisia de Salas y Boixadors. His maternal grandparents were Count Pál Széchényi (a son of Count Ferenc Széchényi), and the former Emilie Zichy-Ferraris.[2] Before his grandparents marriage, his grandfather had been married to, and widowed from, Lady Caroline Meade (a daughter of the 2nd Earl of Clanwilliam).[3][4] His maternal uncle, Count Pál Széchenyi, was the Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Trade of Hungary from October 1882 to April 1889.[5]

Career

The Count of Peña Ramiro (far right), along with his brother-in-law, The Duke of Sotomayor, at Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, 24 June 1897

On 24 June 1897, Caro and his brother-in-law, Carlos Martínez de Irujo, 8th Duke of Sotomayor, the Special Ambassador appointed by the Queen-Regent of Spain for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, attended the State Evening Party at Buckingham Palace.[6]

Caro was a career diplomat with postings in Tangier, Sweden, Germany and Japan.[7][8][9] From 8 October 1915 to April 1924, he served as Spain's ambassador to Japan in Tokyo.[10] Due to his Hungarian noble ancestry, Hungarian affairs in Japan were handled by the Spanish Embassy in Tokyo.[11]

Personal life

He used the title, Count of Peña Ramiro, which had previously been used by his uncle, Joaquín Caro y Álvarez de Toledo, who served as the Civil Governor of Madrid and as a member of the Congress of Deputies.[12]

The Count of Peña Ramiro, who did not marry, was assassinated during the Spanish Civil War in 1936.[12]

Notes

  1. ^ Some sources indicate his birth date at 21 October 1863.

References

  1. ^ a b Revista de historia y de genealogía española (in Spanish). C. Bermejo. 1928. p. 660. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
  2. ^ Zichy, Antal (1896). Gróf Szechenyi István életrajza (in Hungarian). A Magyar Történelmi Társulat Kiadása. p. 136. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
  3. ^ Lengyel, József (1979). The Bridgebuilders. Corvina Kiadó. p. 19. ISBN 978-963-13-0376-6. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
  4. ^ Hungarian Studies: Journal of the International Association of Hungarian Studies. Akadémiai Kiadó. 1988. p. 101. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
  5. ^ "Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon". mek.oszk.hu. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
  6. ^ "Don Carlos (Martinez de Irujo), 8th Duke of Sotomayor (d. 1910)". lafayette.org.uk. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
  7. ^ "Gaceta de Madrid num 3 de 1907" (PDF). Boletín Ordinario. 3 January 1907. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
  8. ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie: für das Jahr ... nach amtlichen Quellen zusammengestellt (in German). Hof- und Staatsdr. 1908. p. 276. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
  9. ^ "CARO" (PDF). www.raicesreinovalencia.com. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
  10. ^ Takenobu, Yoshitaro (1926). The Japan Yearbook: Complete Cyclopaedia of General Information and Statistics on Japan and Japanese Territories. Japan year book office. p. 142. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
  11. ^ "A civilian engine of trade relations". dteurope.com. Diplomacy & Trade. 22 May 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
  12. ^ a b Tous, Antònia Morey (1999). Noblesa i desvinculació a Mallorca als segles XVIII i XIX: les repercussions de la legislació desvinculadora sobre els patrimonis nobiliaris (in Catalan). Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat. p. 389. ISBN 978-84-8415-069-5. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Caro_y_Sz%C3%A9ch%C3%A9nyi
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