[1][2] He was an important board member of club Puerta de Hierro in Madrid, and was one of the six founders of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation.
[1] In politics, he was a senator by appointment of the Crown,[1] and on 6 March 1939, he was one of the people chosen by Franco to be part, as deputy mayor, of the City Council of Madrid chaired by Alberto Alcocer.
[1][4] Gandarias married Isabel Alós, daughter of the Marquess of Haro and a four-time Spanish golf champion between 1932 and 1935, a sport in which he also became international.
[1][3][6] Gandarias was also a bullfighting rancher, whose cattle grazed on the Castillo de Higares farm, in the municipality of Mocejón, in the province of Toledo.
[8] In politics, Gandarias was a senator by appointment of the Crown,[1] and on 6 March 1939, he was one of the people chosen by Franco to be part, as deputy mayor, of the City Council of Madrid chaired by Alberto Alcocer.