Serafín María de Sotto, 3rd Count of Clonard

Serafín María de Sotto. (Museo del Ejército).

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

• 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.