Serafín María de Sotto, 3rd Count of Clonard

The Most Excellent The Count of Clonard OIC OSH LH
Prime Minister of Spain
In office 19 October 1849 – 20 October 1849
Monarch	Isabella II
Preceded by	Ramon Maria Narvaez
Succeeded by	Juan Bravo Murillo
Personal details
Born	Serafín María de Sotto y Abbach
Nationality	Spanish

Don Serafín María de Sotto y Abbach, 3rd Count of Clonard and 5th Marquis of la Granada (Barcelona, Spain, 12 October 1793 – Madrid, Spain, 23 February 1862) was a Spanish noble, politician, writer and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Spain in 1849. Elder son of Raimundo de Sotto, 2nd Count of Clonard and Ramona Abbach, 4th Marquise of la Granada, he was of Irish patrilineal descent, a descendant of John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley. In Spain, the family name had been Hispanicized as Sotto.

Works

• Memoria para la Historia de las tropas de la Casa Real de España (1824).
• Memoria histórica de las academias militares de España (1847).
• Historia orgánica de las armas de Infantería y Caballería españolas (1851–1859).
• Álbum de la Infantería española (1861).
• Álbum de la Caballería española (1861).

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Serafín María de Sotto.

• Catalan Encyclopedia. Serafín de Sotto.
• The 3rd Count of Clonard at the House of Sutton's official site.
• Personal dossier of the Count of Clonard. Spanish Senate.