Guillermo Landa y Escandón

Guillermo Landa y Escandón
Governor of the Federal District
In office 8 October 1900 – 7 December 1900
Preceded by	Rafael Rebollar
Succeeded by	Ramón Corral
Governor of the Federal District
In office 3 January 1903 – 2 May 1911
Preceded by	Ramón Corral
Succeeded by	Samuel García Cuéllar
Personal details
Born	2 May 1842 Mexico City, Mexico
Died	March 1, 1927(1927-03-01) (aged 84) Cannes, France
Spouse	Sofía de Ossio y del Barrio
Education	Stonyhurst College

Guillermo Landa y Escandón (2 May 1842 – 1 March 1927) was a Mexican politician and businessman. He was governor of the Federal District of Mexico.[1] He was one of the Porfirio Díaz administration's Científicos.

Early life

Landa was born on 2 May 1842 as the son of José María Landa Martínez (1811–1876), a member of the Council of Notables of the Second Mexican Empire, and María Francisca Escandón Garmendia (1815–1869), a Lady-in-waiting to the Empress Charlotte (wife of Maximilian I of Mexico).[2][3]

He studied at Stonyhurst College, the Jesuit independent school on the Stonyhurst Estate, Lancashire, England, from 1858 to 1862.

Career

A prominent Mexican politician and businessman, Landa served as the governor of the Federal District of Mexico.[1]

Personal life

Photograph of his son, Billy, and his new wife, the former Kathleen Moore, Countess of Drogheda, with her daughter, Lady Patricia Moore, October 25, 1922

Guillermo was married to Sofía de Ossio y del Barrio (1867–1932).[4] Together, they were the parents of:

• María de la Luz de Landa y Ossio (1880–1969), who married Sebastian Bernardo de Mier in 1910.[5] After his death in 1917, she married William Douglas Arbuthnot-Leslie, 13th of Warthill. As a wedding present, he bought them Lickleyhead Castle.[6] After they divorced in 1944, she married Capt. Ronald Edward Warlow.
• Guillermo "Billy" de Landa y Ossio (1894–1948), a playboy who married British socialite Kathleen Moore, Countess of Drogheda (former wife of Henry Moore, 10th Earl of Drogheda), in 1922. They divorced in 1929.[7][8][9]
• Sofía de Landa y Ossio (1898–1964), who married Guillermo Limantur y Cañas.[10]
• Carmen de Landa y Ossio (b. 1901), who married Juan Francisco de Béistegui Yturbe.[11]
• José Manuel "Pepe" de Landa y Ossio, who married Virginia (née Willys) de Aguirre, former wife of Argentine rancher Luis Marcelino de Aguirre,[12] and daughter of the former U.S. Ambassador to Poland, John Willys.[13]

Landa died in Cannes, France on 1 March 1927.[14]

Descendants

He is a great-great-grandparent of actress Rose Leslie and attorney Alexander Clark.[15]

References

1. Olvera Mijares, Raúl (2011). Fondo de Cultura Económica (ed.). Científicos porfiristas. México.
2. Hermosillo, Margarita Urías (1 September 2017). Obra histórica (in Spanish). Universidad Veracruzana. p. 168. ISBN 978-607-502-594-0. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
3. Valles, Javier; Arenas, Judith Licea de (24 March 2014). Imágenes Del Segundo Imperio Mexicano 1864 – 1867. Palibrio. p. 162. ISBN 978-1-4633-4597-6. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
4. Gossman, Rafael Fierro (4 November 2012). "Grandes casas de México: La casa de don Guillermo De Landa y Escandón". grandescasasdemexico.blogspot.com. Grandes casas de México. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
5. "MRS. E.W. RICHARDSON IS MARRIED IN LONDON; Former Evelyn Weil Is Bride of Sebastian de Mier". The New York Times. 4 May 1939. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
6. Coyle, Catherine (5 March 2019). "This Life: Sarah and Will Leslie, Wardhill Castle | Homes & Interiors Scotland". Homes & Interiors Scotland. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
7. "Turtle Bunbury – Award-winning travel writer, historian and author based in Ireland". turtlebunbury.com. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
8. "COUNTESS OF DROGHEDA, SPORTSWOMAN, TO WED Divorcee, Noted for Her Aviation Exploits, to Marry Guillemo Delanda, Polo Player". The New York Times. 31 Aug 1922. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
9. "EX-COUNTESS GETS DIVORCE; Former Lady Drogheda Gets Decree From De Landa". The New York Times. 17 April 1929. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
10. Loaeza, Guadalupe; Teresa, Guillermo Tovar de (1995). Manual de la gente bien (in Spanish). Plaza & Janés. pp. 170–171. ISBN 978-968-11-0164-0. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
11. Morales, Vicente; Caballero, Manuel (1908). El señor Root en Mexico: cronica de la visita hecha en octubre de 1907 al pueblo y al gobierno de la República mexicana, por su excelencia el Honorable señor Elihu Root, secretario de estado del gobierno de los Estados Unidos de América (in Spanish). "Arte y letras. p. 79. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
12. "U.S. Heiress Weds". The Daily Herald. 27 May 1929. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
13. Tnias, uuuuu I. Special to THE Niw YORK (11 March 1933). "VIRGINIA DE AGUIRRE ENGAGED TO MARRY; Troth of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Willys's Daughter to Jose de Landa Announced*". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
14. Tablada, José Juan (1988). Los días y las noches de París. Crónicas parisienses (in Spanish). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Estudios Literarios. p. 220. ISBN 978-968-36-0303-6. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
15. "'Juego de Tronos': Descubrimos los orígenes aristocráticos de Rose Leslie ante su boda con Kit Harington" (in Spanish). Antena 3. 30 March 2021.