Alfonso de Urquijo y Landecho (31 July 1920 – 23 September 1994) was a Spanish professional hunter, writer and banker.
[1] He was a younger brother of Luis de Urquijo, who was President of Real Madrid from 1926 to 1930.
Alfonso de Urquijo was born the 31st July 1920 in Llodio, a town in the Basque Country province of Álava, in Northern Spain.
In 1941, Urquijo volunteered as a soldier when Franco sent the Blue Division to fight the Soviets alongside Nazi Germany during the Winter campaign of World War II.
Urquijo died on 23 September 1994 in his finca, "Nava el Sach", in Jaén, Southern Spain.