Ramón Cabrera, 1st Duke of Maestrazgo

As his family had in their gift two chaplaincies, young Cabrera was sent to the seminary of Tortosa, where he made himself conspicuous as an unruly pupil, ever mixed up in disturbances and careless in his studies.

Cabrera vowed 'rivers of blood will flow in Catalonia' after her execution; and the Carlist leader then started upon a policy of reprisals so merciless that the people nicknamed him The Tiger of the Maestrazgo.

Marshals Espartero and O'Donnell, with the bulk of the Isabellino armies, had to conduct a long and bloody campaign against Cabrera before they succeeded in driving him into French territory in July 1840.

The government of Louis Philippe kept him in a fortress for some months and then allowed him to go to England, where he quarrelled with the pretender, disapproving of his abdication in favor of the count of Montemolin.

Indeed, his long residence in England, his marriage with Miss Richards, and his prolonged absence from Spain had much shaken his devotion to his old cause and belief in its success.

His tomb, which has Grade II listed building, is in a railed-off section of the churchyard of Christ Church, Virginia Water, Surrey, England.

The execution of Cabrera's mother, Maria Griñó, by firing squad, 1836.
" The tiger of Maestrazgo ", portrait painting of Cabrera by John Prescott Knight
Sword belonging to Cabrera, a gift from Infante Carlos
Cabrera's monogram as "Count of Morella" at his estate, now part of the Wentworth Club
Wall monument in Christ Church, Virginia Water