Jorge Enrique Loring y Oyarzábal
Spanish noble
Jorge Loring y Oyarzábal, 1st Marquis of Casa Loring (20 August 1822 – 11 February 1901) was a Spanish noble, politician and businessman. His grandson Jorge Loring Martinez created the company Talleres Loring, an aircraft manufacturer that produced important aircraft such as the Loring R-1, the Loring R-2 or the Loring R-3.2
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Born Aug 9, 1822, died Feb 11, 1900.1
Companies
Early life and education
Education and citizenship
Like his brothers, he was educated in the United States, where he studied engineering at Harvard. He held citizenship in the United States and in Spain.
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Career
Occupation: politician, businessperson.6
- Date not recordedFounded Compañía de los Ferrocarriles Andaluces3
- Date not recordedMember of the Congress of Deputies4
- Date not recordedMember of the Senate of Spain4 5
Career and title
He built (or helped build) the first railroad in Andalusia, from Córdoba to Málaga. He was created Marquis de Casa Loring in 1856.
He founded the Bank of Málaga. He founded the newspaper El Correo de Andalucía and supported metal refining and lead smelting.
He lived in Madrid between 1873 and 1890, where he was Liberal MP and senator for many years.
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Personal life
Marriage and family
In 1850 he married Amalia Heredia Livermore of Málaga, herself a daughter of Manuel Heredia and Isabel Livermore. She was "an educated and intelligent woman" raised with an education "typical of the bourgeoisie of the time: refined, strong belief in Catholicism, foreign travel and a flair for fine arts."
They had eight children, five of whom became or married Spanish nobility. A grandson, Jorge Loring Martinez, excelled as an aviation entrepreneur and inventor. A great grandson, Jorge Loring Miró SJ, is a widely published Spanish Jesuit priest.
A third great grand daughter, Vittoria Eugenia Alvarez de Toledo y Marone-Cinzano, is the 7th and current Marquesa de Casa Loring and a cousin, once removed, of King Juan Carlos of Spain.
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