Manuel González-Hontoria y Fernández-Ladreda
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Manuel González-Hontoria y Fernández-Ladreda (31 January 1878 – 26 October 1954) was a Spanish politician and diplomat who served two times as Minister of Estate during the reign of Alfonso XIII. He was also the son of the artillery inventor/engineer and military man José González Hontoria.
Hontoria was one of the architects of the Algeciras Conference of 1906 to mediate the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany.[1]
He is the author of Tratado de Derecho Internacional y de El protectorado francés en Marruecos and co-author of Historia Universal de Oncken.
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