Francisco de Borja Queipo de Llano, 8th Count of Toreno

His father was President of Spain and his great-grandmother was the Princess of Anglona of the Borja family.

Born at Madrid, he was educated at the Madrid Institute and University, entered parliament in 1864 as a Moderado, and sat in all the Cortes of Queen Isabella's reign as a deputy for his ancestral province, Asturias.

Loyal to the Bourbons all through the revolution, he nevertheless became a deputy in the Cortes of 1871–1873, and founded an Alphonsist paper, El Tiempo, in 1873.

[2] When the Restoration took place, its first cabinet made Count de Toreno mayor of the capital[3] and, in 1875, minister of public works, in which capacity he improved the public libraries, museums, academies and archives, and caused many important works to be published, including the Cartas de Indias.

During the reign of Alphonso XII and the first years of the regency of Queen Christina, Count de Toreno was one of the most prominent Conservative leaders and was often consulted by the Crown.