Trinidad Hermenegildo José María Juan Francisco Pardo de Tavera y Gorricho[1] (13 April 1857 – 26 March 1925) was a Filipino physician, historian and politician of Spanish and Portuguese descent who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the First Philippine Republic in 1899.

Trinidad was born on 13 April 1857 to Spanish lawyer and government official Félix Pardo de Tavera and Juliana Gorricho who hailed from a wealthy, illustrious Filipino family.

In late 1640s, the Pardos added the name de Tavera to affix their place of origin similar to Spanish noble customs.

In 1825, Trinidad's grandfather and Félix's father, Julián Pardo de Tavera, set sail for Manila shortly after marrying Spanish woman Juana María Gómez.

Juliana's mother, Ciriaca de los Santos, was a Filipina entrepreneur from Cavite who made their family fortune by selling hay to horses used by the Spanish cavalry.

His uncle, Joaquín, still childless from his marriage to Gertrudis Gorricho, volunteered to become the adoptive father of Trini, Félix hijo and Carmen or Chiching.

To fill Félix's post in the four-people Consejo de Administración, a royal order came to Manila offering the position to Joaquín.

When the Glorious Revolution broke out in Spain in 1868 to overthrow Isabella II, Joaquín was named one of the assemblymen to push reforms in the Philippines.

In 1869, they presented list of reforms to the liberal governor Carlos María de la Torre which outraged the peninsulares (or Spaniards born in mainland Spain).

By 1875, he was on his midway of his study of medicine at University of Santo Tomas when his uncle Joaquín, sent an invitation for them to reside in Paris and pursue education in France.

Jose Rizal lamented after the publication of the El sánscrito en la lengua tagala that "I envy Pardo de Tavera's knowledge of Sanskrit.

He was recognized as the first Filipino to publish a medical article in a professional journal, as he wrote down La medicine a l'Ile de Luzon, Archipel des Philippine.

[14] Trinidad Pardo de Tavera, during his stay at Paris, was immersed through a plethora of works, since he could understand different languages such as Spanish, French, German, Italian, English and apparently, Russian.

[15] He read works by prominent figures such as Wilhelm von Humboldt, Abel de Remusat, Eugene Burnouf, Rudolf Virchow and Fedor Jagor.