Don

Don (honorific)

Don, from Latin dominus, is an honorific in Spanish , Portuguese , and Italian . The female equivalent is Doña , Dona , and Donna , abbreviated "Dª" or simply "D."-Usage:...

 Serafín María de Sotto y Abbach, 3rd Count of Clonard and 5th Marquis of la Granada (Barcelona

Barcelona

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, Spain

Spain

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, 12 October 1793 – Madrid

Madrid

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, Spain, 23 February 1862) was a Spanish noble

Nobility

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, politician

Politician

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, writer

Writer

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 and statesman

Statesman

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 who served as Prime Minister of Spain

Prime Minister of Spain

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 in 1849. Elder son of Raimundo de Sotto, 2nd Count of Clonard and Ramona Abbach, 4th Marquise of la Granada, he was of Irish

Irish people

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 patrilineal descent, a descendant of John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley

John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley

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. In Spain, the family name had been hispanicized

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as Sotto.

Works

• Memoria para la Historia de las tropas de la Casa Real de España (1824).
• Memoria histórica de las academias militares de España (1847).
• Historia orgánica de las armas de Infantería y Caballería españolas (1851-1859).
• Álbum de la Infantería española (1861).
• Álbum de la Caballería española (1861).