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Bernardo del Campo (Belorado, 1728-Madrid, March 24, 1800), Marqués del Campo, was a Spanish diplomat and state advisor, ambassador to London and Paris.

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Bernardo del Campo was, apparently, a natural son of a foreign aristocrat from whom the name is ignored, but that he must have run with the expenses of a careful education that included the domain of French and English, knowledge that would be very useful in its subsequent diplomatic career. [ first ] In addition, according to it, he studied some time at the Sacromonte Seminar in Granada. [ 2 ] He began his career in 1748 under the orders of Jaime Masones de Lima, extraordinary ambassador to the Aquistgrán Congress. A year later he joined the Spanish embassy in London, headed by Ricardo Wall. [ 3 ] He continued in her in 1754, when he was in charge of business Félix de Abreu, and must have been then when he met José Cadalso. [ 4 ] In Madrid he worked as a covachuelista in the Secretary of State with Ricardo Wall and in 1775 as an officer first in the Ministry of Jerónimo Grimaldi, although, a friend of the Count of Aranda, whom he kept informed in his Embassy of France of the affairs of the Court , show him in his correspondence little affection. [ first ] In his post, he established friendship with Bernardo Iriarte and José Nicolás de Azara and won the confidence of his superiors as a working and serene man, to the point that King Carlos III secretly sent him to Rome in 1770 to deal with Pope the Pope Dissolution of the Society of Jesus. [ 2 ] ​

In 1771, when the order of Carlos III was created, he entered it as a pensioning gentleman and held the position of secretary until his departure to England. After the dismissal of Grimaldi (1776) he found the favor of the Count of Floridablanca, working in his office as senior officer, occupied, among other things, in intelligence tasks at the head of the “black cabinet.” [ 5 ] After the Gibraltar site of 1779 he returned to England as an extraordinary ambassador in 1783. There he received Antonio Ponz on his trip through Europe started that same year, [ 6 ] And the title of Marqués del Campo was granted in 1789, while the appointment of Ambassador in London was effective. In 1795 he passed as an ambassador to France, where he had the help of the Count of Cabarrús in terms of economic interests. In November 1797 he was appointed state counselor, replacing Cabarrús at the head of the embassy, ​​but Campo remained in it until September 1799 when he left Paris to start the return trip. [ 3 ] He arrived in Spain in early 1800, after having suffered a stroke during the trip, of which he died in Madrid on March 24. [ 4 ] ​

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  1. ↑ a b Olaechea, p. 103.
  2. ↑ a b Olaechea, p. 114.
  3. ↑ a b Badorrey, Spanish biographical dictionary .
  4. ↑ a b Cadalso, 1979, p. 185.
  5. ↑ Olaechea, PP. 106-1
  6. ↑ Crespo Delgado, 2012, p. 99.

Bibliography [ To edit ]

  • Badorrey Martín, Beatriz, «Bernardo del Campo and Pérez de la Serna» , Spanish biographical dictionary , Royal Academy of History.
  • Cadalso, José, Autobiographical and epistolary writings , Ed. y notas a cargo de Nigel Glendinning y Nicole Harrison, London, Tamesis Books Limited, 1979, ISBN 0-7293-0076-5
  • Crespo Delgado, Daniel, A trip for illustration. The “trip of Spain” (1772-1784) by Antonio Ponz , Pablo de Olavide and Marcial Pons Municipalities Foundation, Madrid, 2012, ISBN 9788492820580.
  • Olaechea, Rafael, “Information and Political Action: the Count of Aranda”, Historical research: modern and contemporary era , .º 7 (1987), PP. 81-130

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