Francisco Gil de Taboada Lemus, XXXV Viceroy of Peru . He is the son of Felipe Gil de Taboada and María Josefa de Lemus. He was born in Santa María de Sotolongo (Galicia) in 1733. At the age of 19 he sat as a midshipman and was invested with the habit of a professed knight of the order of Saint John of Jerusalem. For many years he served in the communication between Spain and the Indies. In 1788 he was appointed viceroy of New Granada, and took a seat in the gubernatorial palace of Santafé de Bogotá for only about seven months, until he received promotion to the position of viceroy, governor, and captain general of Peru. He moved to his new destination by way of Panama and officially assumed command in Lima on March 25, 1790, although he deferred the solemn ceremony of entering the city until the following May 17. His period of government of six years is counted among the most notable of the viceroyalty, for the determined support that he offered to letters and public education.
Francisco Gil de Taboada facilitated the work of the scientific expedition of the corvettes "Descubierta" and "Atrevida", led by Captain Alejandro Malaspina, and with which naturalists such as Tadeo Haenke and Luis Née (1790) arrived. Francisco Gil de Taboada also favored the explorations carried out in the Pampa del Sacramento by the Franciscans Sobreviela and Girbal, and protected the establishment of a mineralogical laboratory in Lima, near the Paseo de Aguas, placed in the care of Baron Timoteo de Nordenflicht. Tests were developed in this laboratory to establish a new method for the benefit of Andean deposits. On the other hand, the Nautical School was inaugurated by Captain Agustín Mendoza; the free production and export of sugar was authorized; an anatomical amphitheater was installed in the hospital of San Andrés (1792); and a general population census was carried out in the Peruvian viceroyalty , which gave a global figure of 1,076,122 inhabitants, without considering the administration of Puno (1791). This last jurisdiction, which remained for several decades in the area of the Río de la Plata, was definitively reincorporated into Peru in January 1796.
Regarding the promotion of the press and public opinion, we must highlight the successive appearance of The Government Gazette , from the erudite and economic newspaper of Lima, promoted by Jaime Bausate y Mesa (1790), from the famous Mercurio Peruano , organ of the Society of Lovers of the Country (1791), and of the Outsiders' Guides, composed under the responsibility of the learned Hipólito Unanue. In addition, an academy of fine arts was established and studies in the natural sciences were encouraged at the University of San Marcos. Finally, on June 7, 1796, Gil de Taboada transferred the insignia of viceregal command to his successor, Don Ambrosio O'Higgins. Aided both by the wise Unanue and by José Ignacio de Lecuanda, this president left a memory of government that is among the most outstanding of the Relations of the Viceroys of Peru. According to the historian Guillermo Lohmann Villena, this piece "exhales a certain doctrinal elevation and denounces the vigorous spirit of the statesman who knows how to keep up with the times and confront the sophistries of the French Revolution, using the typical weapons of a ruler of the Enlightenment.
Francisco Gil de Taboada left the port of Callao on December 23, 1796 to return to Spain . There he continued his brilliant administrative career, being appointed Director General of the Navy (1803) and then Minister of the Navy (1805). He retired from public life when the invading regime of José Bonaparte was established. He died in Madrid in 1810, when he was 77 years old .
Now Ive come from the rain to the liquid manure, said the singer-songwriter after his expatriation from the GDR. He went to the GDR voluntarily. Today he lives in Hamburg, where he was born 85 years ago. A portrait. The singer-songwriter and writer Wolf Biermann is a Hamburger Jung:He was born on N