González y Soto was born in Jerez de la Frontera, in Southern Spain, on 10 June 1846 as the fifth of a total of nine children.

[2] From the 1870s the second generation González family members were in charge of the company, led by Manuel Críspulo and his brother Pedro Nolasco.

One hall of the complex was dedicated for locals who could not afford treatment therapies and the lower ranked soldiers from the military garrison of Jerez de la Frontera.

[2] González y Soto donated lands in Sanlúcar de Barrameda to the wounded soldiers of the wars in Cuba and the Philippines.

[1] He was made 1st Marquis of Bonanza on 6 February 1902 by Queen Regent Maria Christina of Austria, mother to the underage king Alfonso XIII of Spain.