| Honorific Prefix: | The Most Illustrious |
| The Count of Yebes | |
| Birth Date: | 1899 9, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Madrid, Spain |
| Death Place: | Madrid, Spain |
| Father: | Alvaro de Figueroa y Torres, 1st Count of Romanones |
| Mother: | Casilda Alonso-Martínez y Martín |
| Spouse: | |
| Children: | 2 |
Eduardo de Figueroa y Alonso-Martínez, 8th Count of Yebes (20 September 1899 – 11 July 1984) was a Spanish aristocrat, architect, politician and writer. He was a member of parliament for Barbastro, fellow of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and president of the National Board of Trophy Hunting Homologation.[1]
He was born in Madrid as the sixth child of Alvaro de Figueroa y Torres, 1st Count of Romanones, who was Prime Minister of Spain, and his wife Casilda Alonso-Martínez y Martín, the daughter of Manuel Alonso Martínez.[2] He had six siblings: Casilda, Luis, Álvaro, Carlos, José and Agustín. His brother Álvaro was Mayor of Madrid between 1921 and 1922, José won a silver medal in polo at the 1920 Summer Olympics and Agustín was a successful movie director, and the father-in-law of singer Raphael.
Yebes has gone down as one of the most well-known hunters of the 20th century.[3] His book Veinte Años de Caza Mayor (Twenty Years of Big Game Hunting) was prologued by Ortega y Gasset and is still considered one of the gems of hunting literature.[4] He was described as "tough and wiry and willing to work for his trophy despite being a nobleman".[5]
Amongst his achievements are harvesting the current world record giant sable antelope in Angola in 1949, currently on show at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales.[6] [7] [8] He was also the first to document the existence of the Iberian ibex in the Penibaetic System.[9]
Yebes was a passionate roe deer hunter since his finca, El Robledo, had a plentiful population.
He was made Honorific President of the Royal Hunting Federation of Spain and founded the National Board of Trophy Hunting Homologation with fellow hunters in 1950, a body of which he was the first president.[10]
He died in Madrid in July 1984.[11]
On 3 July 1922, he married Carmen Muñoz y Roca-Tallada at San Fermín de los Navarros in Madrid. They had two children: