page_title: José Pascual de Liñán y Eguizábal
section_title: Retiree
hierarchical_section_title: José Pascual de Liñán y Eguizábal / Retiree
caption_attribution_description: English: miraflorez
context_page_description: José Pascual de Liñán y Eguizábal, Count of Doña Marina was a Spanish writer, publisher and a Carlist politician. He is known mostly as the manager of two Traditionalist dailies, issued in the 1890s and 1900s in the Vascongadas, and as the author of minor works related to jurisprudence and history. As a politician he briefly headed the Carlist regional party organization in Castile, though he is recognized rather as an architect of political rebranding of Carlism in the late 19th century.
context_section_description: The Mellista political project was bogged by internal controversy; while de Mella opted for a close ultra-conservative alliance, Víctor Pradera advocated a loose minimalist coalition based on the lowest common denominator. Doña Marina tended to side with the latter, though as usual he preferred to stay in the back row and is not listed among key protagonists of the disputes, taking place in the disintegrating Mellista camp at the turn of the decades. The 1923 advent of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship brought national political life to a standstill and marked an attempt to build a new system. Pradera joined the project; by a contemporary scholar Doña Marina is counted among "mellistas praderistas". There is no confirmation of him joining the primoderiverista structures, though he lent the regime his cautious support when contributing various newspaper pieces. The process climaxed in 1928; Doña Marina publicly acknowledged Alfonso XIII as a legitimate king, arguing that pledges embracing Catholic principles rendered him fit for rule also from the Traditionalist perspective. Confronting rising republican tide of the Dictablanda he limited himself to praising patriotic and monarchical values. In 1931 he organized a mass honoring the defunct Don Jaime. One author claims that in 1932 he joined the re-united Comunión Tradicionalista. If so he would have been among the oldest party patriarchs, but an official 1933 publication issued to commemorate the centenary of Carlism did not mention his name.
  Since 1911 Doña Marina was involved in Sociedad Nacional de Credito, an enterprise founded by José Larracea, the banker and father of his daughter-in-law. Upon foundation of the company he became member of SNC's concejo de administración, his name and title featuring prominently in press adverts. In the late 1910s he grew to presidency of the company, which became fairly successful on the Spanish credit market; he remained at its helm until the early 1930s. A member of numerous scientific institutions related to history and archeology, occasionally he was referred to as "academico" and "catedrático", though despite a number of attempts to land a university job in 1886-1912 no source confirms he has ever assumed academic teaching duties. Liñán spent his last years in the family residence in Miraflores de la Sierra, a town at the footsteps of Sierra de Guadarrama and a summer getaway for rich madrileños. Since 1929 a widower, he became almost blind and reduced his activity to few religious organizations. Some time in the early 1930s he ceded the Conde de Doña Marina title to his son.
caption: Miraflores, Liñán's mansion is the building in the bottom-left corner
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