Miró Quesada Family
Script error: No such module "AfC submission catcheck". The Miró Quesada family is a Peruvian business family[1] of Balearic-Jewish origin.[2] It is considered one of the most important in the country, due to its large ownership of different properties in the Peruvian media, mining, tourism, and banking.
Origins[edit]
Tomás Gómez Miró y Rubini was born on December 21st, 1800, in Penonomé, Panama, New Granada. In November 1831, Tomás married Josefa de Quesada y Velarde, born in Andalusia.
Their children were as follows:
- Joaquín Miró Quesada
- Josefa Miró Quesada
- Tomás Miró Quesada
- Gregorio Miró Quesada
- José Antonio Miró Quesada (Panama, 1845 – Lima, 1930), who married Matilde de la Guerra Gorostide.
Their children arrived to Peru in the nineteenth century.
García-Miró Branch[edit]
The children of Josefa Miró Quesada de la Guerra (daughter of José Antonio Miró Quesada) and Pedro García Yrigoyen put their family names together to form the García-Miró surname. This Branch of the family also dedicated itself to print media.
Pezet Miró Quesada Branch[edit]
Joaquin Miró Quesada married Teresa de Ingunza y Lucar and had the following children:
- Maria Teresa Miró Quesada Ingunza, (1871-1930), who married Víctor Pezet Eastedd, Consul of Peru in New Orleans (himself a grandson of former president of Peru General Juan Antonio Pezet y Rodriguez). Their children were: Carmen Rosa Simona, Victor Federico, Maria Teresa, Alicia, Jorge, Elvira Elena, Juan Antonio, Rosa, Guillermo Miguel y Jorge Alejandro Felix Pezet Miró Quesada.
El Comercio[edit]
The original owners of El Comercio were Manuel Amunátegui y Muñoz (Chile, 1802 – Lima, 1886) and Alejandro Villota (Buenos Aires, 1803 – Paris, 1861), who founded it in 1839 and owned it until 1875, where it was transferred to Luis Carranza Ayarza (Ayacucho, 1843 – Lima, 1898) and José Antonio Miró Quesada, who owned it from 1875 to 1905.
In 1876, the company "Carranza, Miró-Quesada y Compañía", which was formed to publish the newspaper, provided in one of its clauses that whoever of the partners died first, would leave the surviving partner the priority to buy the share of the one who had died, without his heirs having any more right than to receive the purchase money. Carranza died of a heart attack at the age of 54, in 1898. The first photograph that El Comercio published was that of his portrait, in the edition of July 29 of that year, the day after his death. One of Carranza’s children, Luis Carranza Valdez (1877-1929), would go on to found in 1916 the newspaper “El Tiempo” in Piura, being to this day one of the most important in the region.
Business groups[edit]
- Grupo El Comercio – Business conglomerate composed of properties related to media, print media, baking, real estate, hospitality, mining and construction
- Grupo Plural TV (América Televisión and Canal N) - Broadcasting conglomerate and Telecommunications
References[edit]
- ↑ Micholot, María Mendoza (October 29, 2017). "100 años de periodismo en el Perú: 1900-1948". Fondo editorial Universidad de Lima – via Google Books.
- ↑ https://www.raco.cat/index.php/Sarria/article/download/281728/369547
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