Domingo d'Yriarte

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

Don Domingo de Iriarte

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]

References

1. Charles Frederick Partington (1836). The British cyclopædia of literature, history, geography, law, and politics. p. 239. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
2. Charles Théodore Beauvais de Préau; Antoine-Alexandre Barbier (1829). Biographie universelle classique: ou, Dictionnaire historique portatif. C. Gosselin. p. 3387. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
3. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz; John Radzilowski (2003). Spanish Carlism and Polish Nationalism: The Borderlands of Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Transaction Publishers. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-9679960-5-9. Retrieved 24 October 2012.