Manuel Bermúdez de Castro y Díez
Don Manuel Bermúdez de Castro y Díez (Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, 11 June 1811 – Madrid, Spain, 11 March 1870) was a Spanish economist and politician who served as Minister of Spain between 1865 and 1866, in a unionist cabinet headed by Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuan.
Manuel was the first son of José Bermúdez de Castro y Blasco and María de los Dolores Díez e Imbrechst. He married in Madrid, on 21 July 1860, María de la Encarnación O'Lawlor y Caballero, daughter of the Irishman Joseph O'Lawlor and Dionisia Caballero y Crooke. They had a single son:
- Don Salvador Bermúdez de Castro, 2nd Duke of Ripalda (1863–1946), who inherited the Dukedom of Ripalda and the Marquisate of Lema from Manuel's younger brother .
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