See also:COUNT OF JOSE MARIA QUIEPO DE LLANO See also:RUIZ DE See also:SARAVIA See also:TORENO (1786-1843)
, See also:Spanish politician and historian, was See also:born at See also:Oviedo on the 25th of See also:November 1786
.
His See also:family was wealthy and belonged to the most See also:ancient See also:nobility of See also:Asturias
.
His See also:mother, Dominga See also:Ruiz de See also:Saravia, had See also:property in the See also:province of See also:Cuenca
.
The son received a better See also:education in See also:classics, See also:mathematics and See also:modern See also:languages than was usual at that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time
.
The See also:young See also:viscount of See also:Mat arrosa, the See also:title he See also:bore in his See also:father's lifetime, was introduced to the writings of See also:Voltaire and See also:Rousseau by the See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot of the See also:Benedictine See also:house of Monserrat in See also:Madrid
.
He was See also:present at Madrid when the See also:city See also:rose against See also:Murat on the 2nd of May 18o8, and took See also:part in the struggle which was the beginning of the See also:Peninsular See also:War
.
From Madrid he escaped to Asturias, and on the 3oth of May he embarked in a See also:Jersey See also:privateer at Gijon, with other delegates, in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to ask for the help of See also:England against the See also:French
.
The deputation was enthusiastically received in See also:London
.
By the 3oth of See also:December he was back in Asturias, his father having died in the See also:interval
.
During the Peninsular War he saw some service in the first occupation of Asturias by the French, but he was mainly occupied by his duties as a member of the See also:Cortes
.
In 1809 he was at See also:Seville, where one of his uncles was a member of the central See also:Junta
.
In the following See also:year he was a See also:leader of the party which compelled the Regency to summon the Cortes—to which he was elected by Asturias See also:early in 1811 though he wanted some months of the legal See also:age of twenty-five
.
His See also:election was opposed by some of his own relatives who did not See also:share his advanced opinions, but it was ratified by the Cortes
.
See also:Toreno was conspicuous among the well-meaning men who framed the constitution of 1812, which was made as if it was meant for some imaginary See also:republic and not for See also:Catholic and monarchical See also:Spain
.
When See also:Ferdinand VII. returned from See also:prison in See also:France in 1814 Toreno foresaw a reaction, and put himself out of reach of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king
.
He was the more an See also:object of suspicion because his See also:brother-in-See also:law, Porlier, perished in a See also:wild See also:attempt to support the constitution by force
.
Toreno remained in See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile till the outbreak of the revolution of 1820
.
Between that year and 1823 he was in Spain serving in the restored Cortes, and experience had See also:abated his See also:radical ardour
..
When the French intervened in 1823 Toreno had again to go into exile, and remained abroad till the king published the See also:amnesty of the 15th of See also:October 1832
.
He returned See also:home in See also:July 1833, but remained on his estates till the king's See also:death on the 29th of See also:September
.
As hereditary See also:standard See also:bearer of Asturias (Alferez See also:Mayor) it See also:fell to him to proclaim the young See also:queen, See also:Isabella II
.
In 1834 his now moderate opinions pointed him out to the queen See also:regent, Maria See also:Christina, as a useful See also:man for See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office
.
In See also:June 1834 he was See also:minister of See also:finance, and became See also:prime minister on the 7th of June
.
His See also:tenure of the premiership lasted only till the 14th of September of the same year, when the regent's attempt to retain a practically despotic See also:government under a thin constitutional See also:veil See also:broke down
.
The greater part of the See also:remainder of his See also:life was spent in voluntary exile, and he died in See also:Paris on the 16th of September 1843
.
As a politician he See also:felt the need for a revision of the worn out despotism which ruled till 18o8, but he was destitute of any real See also:political capacity
.
Toreno is chiefly remembered as the author of the See also:History of the Rising, War
and Revolution of Spain, which he began between 1823 and 1832 and published in 1836–1838 in Paris
.
As a See also:work of military See also:criticism it is not of high value, and Toreno was prejudiced in favour of his colleagues of the Cortes, whose errors and excesses he shared in and excused
.
The See also:book is, however, written in excellent Castilian, and was compiled with See also:industry
.
It is See also:worth consulting as an See also:illustration of the time in which the author lived, as a patriotic Spanish view of the war, and for the prominence it gives to the political See also:side of the Peninsular War, which he justly treated as a revolution
.
A See also:biography by See also:Don See also:Antonio de Cueto is prefixed to the reprint of the Levantanziento guerra y revolution de Espana, in vol
.
1xiv. of the Biblioteca de autores espanoles of Rivadeneyra (Madrid 1846-1880)
.
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