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Name
  
Antonio Maura


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Died
  
December 13, 1925, Torrelodones, Spain

Children
  
Miguel Maura, Gabriel Maura Gamazo, Honorio Maura Gamazo, Susana Maura Gamazo, Honorio Maura y Gamazo

Parents
  
Bartolome Maura y Gelabert, Margarita Montaner Llampayes

Grandchildren
  
Jorge Semprun, Carlos Semprun, Julia Maura

Great grandchildren
  
Jaime Semprun, Pablo Semprun, Lourdes Semprun, Dominique Semprun, Juan Semprun, Ricardo Semprun

Similar People
  
Miguel Maura, Gabriel Maura Gamazo, Jorge Semprun, Carlos Semprun

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Antonio Maura Montaner (Catalan: Antoni Maura Montaner; 2 May 1853 – 13 December 1925) was Prime Minister of Spain on five separate occasions: 5 December 1903 – 16 December 1904, 25 January 1907 – 21 October 1909, 22 March 1918 – 9 November 1918, 14 April 1919 – 20 July 1919, and 13 August 1921 – 8 March 1922.

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Early life and education

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Born in Palma de Mallorca on the Balearic Island of Majorca, Maura studied law in Madrid.

Marriage and family

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In 1878 Maura married Constancia Gamazo y Calvo, sister of Germán Gamazo y Calvo. They had several sons and a daughter together (see below), many of whom have been prominent in Spanish and European history.

Political career

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He entered the Cortes Generales in 1881 as a liberal delegate for Majorca, but later joined the Conservative Party. In 1886 Maura was elected as vice president of the Congress of Deputies.

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As prime minister, he created the Spanish Institute of Provission and he attempted to carry out a reform plan, but this was opposed by the liberals. He fell from power after his suppression of an uprising in Barcelona in 1909, called the Tragic Week. The execution of Francesc Ferrer, who was charged with leading the Tragic Week uprising, provoked a European-wide outcry which contributed to Maura's downfall.

Maura was a hero of a youth movement, the Mauristas, who wanted him as a new head of state of Spain at a time of substantial resentment of King Alfonso XIII. This and Maura's ambition caused him to fall out with the King. Maura later headed coalition cabinets with other parties (1918, 1919, 1921–22), but he did nothing to advance unconstitutional methods. Many of his followers later supported the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera, but he remained aloof from both Primo de Rivera and King Alfonso XIII. Maura had first entered the political arena to fight the "caciquismo" culture, which he considered a cancer of Spanish political culture and the main obstacle towards authentically democratic institutions.

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When he was Prime Minister during the reign of Alfonso XIII, he spent summers at the estate of Can Mossenya, historically part of the Valldemossa Charterhouse in Majorca. Chopin and George Sand had stayed there in the previous century. Azorín traveled from the continent to meet Maura there.

Maura became a prolific watercolorist, often painting scenes of nature or old buildings from past eras.

He died in Torrelodones, Madrid in 1925.

Legacy and honors

  • The International Foundation Can Mossenya named an entrance to its historic estate the "Gate of Friendship – Azorín and Maura" after the men's encounter.
  • Descendants

  • Gabriel Maura y Gamazo, (son) 1st Duke of Maura, historian and Labour Minister in the last government of the reign of Alfonso XIII
  • Honorio Maura y Gamazo, (son) playwright and monarchist deputy, killed by leftist militia at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, 1936
  • Miguel Maura y Gamazo, (son) Minister of Security in the first government of the II Spanish Republic
  • Susana Maura Gamazo, (daughter) married José María Semprún Gurrea, a governor in the Republic of Spain, and was mother to Jorge and Carlos Semprun
  • Jorge Semprún y Maura, (grandson) novelist, Communist, and Cultural Minister of Spain during the premiership of Felipe González
  • Carlos Semprún y Maura, (grandson) writer and journalist, brother of Jorge. Both Jorge and Carlos have been long-time residents of France; their father was a republican governor who took his family into exile after the Republic lost the Spanish Civil War
  • Jaime Semprun (great-grandson) writer, essayist, translator and editor.
  • Ricardo Semprún (great-grandson) Spanish diplomat.
  • Pablo Semprún (great-grandson) professional paddle tennis player. 4 times Spain's champion.
  • Luisa Isabel Alvarez de Toledo, 21st Duchess of Medina Sidonia, (great-granddaughter)
  • Jaime Chávarri y de la Mora, (great-grandson) film director
  • References

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