The Marquess of Havana | |
Office: | Prime Minister of Spain |
Term Start: | 19 September 1868 |
Term End: | 30 September 1868 |
Predecessor: | Luis Gonzalez-Bravo |
Successor: | Pascual Madoz |
Birth Date: | 4 June 1809 |
Birth Place: | Córdoba, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, Spanish Empire |
Death Place: | Madrid, Spain |
Birthname: | José Gutiérrez de la Concha e Irigoyen |
Nationality: | Spanish |
Honorific Prefix: | The Most Excellent |
Honorific Suffix: | GE |
José Gutiérrez de la Concha e Irigoyen, 1st Marquess of Havana, 1st Viscount of Cuba, Grandee of Spain (Córdoba, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, 4 June 1809 - Madrid, Spain, 5 November 1895) was a Spanish noble, general, and politician who served three times as Captain General of Cuba and once as the Prime Minister of Spain.
He was born in Córdoba, then part of the Viceroyalty of River Plate in the Spanish Empire.
In 1851, while in command in Cuba, he defeated the Lopez Expedition, a filibustering attempt to seize the island.