Álvaro Flórez Estrada

At thirty he was appointed treasurer-general of the Kingdom by Manuel Godoy, a position that, after some time he resigned from, considering his work incompatible with the liberal convictions he professed.

When the Meeting was dissolved by the Marquis of La Romana, Flórez Estrada escaped to Seville to denounce what happened at the Central Board.

His participation in the Cortes of Cádiz and Masonic societies forced him to flee Spain when, in 1814, he returned from Fernando VII threatening to condemn him to death, exiling himself in London.

[1] His stay there allowed him to get in touch with English economists (David Ricardo, James Mill and Adam Smith), introducing their ideas in Spain.

In 1818 he wrote a transcendental representation to the king in defense of the Cortes, which was printed in London in 1819 and which, published in Spain, contributed to renewing the enthusiasm for the constitutional regime and prepared the way for Rafael Riego to decide on his military uprising on 1 January 1820, in Cabezas de San Juan.

In 1846 he was appointed life senator and, aged eighty-seven years old, he died in the Miraflores de Noreña palace on 16 December 1853.