Domingo d'Yriarte explained

Don Domingo d'Yriarte, also spelled de Yriarte or Iriarte (1746–1795), was a Spanish diplomat.[1] [2]

Biography

D'Yriarte was born in Tenerife in 1746.[2] Relative of Juan d'Yriarte and Bernardo d'Yriarte, also diplomats and officials in Spanish service.[2] He entered into the Spanish diplomatic service, serving as a secretary to ambassadors in Vienna (Austria) and Paris (France), and later as an ambassador in Warsaw, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.[2] He was one of the last foreign diplomats to vacate his post in Warsaw following the Third Partition of Poland and the end of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795.[3] Signed the Peace of Basel on July 22[1] and died on 22 November that year.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Charles Frederick Partington

    . Charles Frederick Partington. Charles Frederick Partington. The British cyclopædia of literature, history, geography, law, and politics. 16 November 2012. 1836. 239.

  2. Book: Charles Théodore Beauvais de Préau. Antoine-Alexandre Barbier. Biographie universelle classique: ou, Dictionnaire historique portatif. 16 November 2012. 1829. C. Gosselin. 3387.
  3. Book: Marek Jan Chodakiewicz. John Radzilowski. Spanish Carlism and Polish Nationalism: The Borderlands of Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries. 24 October 2012. 2003. Transaction Publishers. 978-0-9679960-5-9. 47.