Manuel Pavía y Lacy
Spanish Marshal (1814–1896)
Manuel Pavía y Lacy, 1st Marquess of Novaliches (6 July 1814 – 22 October 1896), was a Spanish marshal.
Biography
He was born at Granada on 6 July 1814, the son of Colonel Tomás Pavía y Miralles and Manuela Lacy y Burgunyo. After a few years at the Jesuit school in Valencia he entered the Royal Artillery Academy at Segovia. In 1833 he became a lieutenant in the guards of Queen Isabella II, and during the Carlist War from 1833 to 1840 he became general of division in the latter year at the early age of twenty-six. The Moderate party made him War minister in January 1847 and sent him to Catalonia, where his efforts to put down a Carlist uprising were not successful. He had been made a senator in 1845, and marquess in 1848.
He was sent out to Manila in 1852 as governor-general of the Philippines. In April 1854 he crushed with much sternness a formidable insurrection and carried out many useful reforms. On his return to Spain he married the Countess of Santa Isabel, and commanded the reserves in the Peninsula during the war with Morocco. He refused the war portfolio twice offered him by Marshals O'Donnell and Narvaez and in 1864 was briefly president of government (prime minister) at the head of a cabinet of conservative-liberal Moderates; his government lasted but a few days.
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