Gabriel Álvarez de Toledo

Who was Gabriel Álvarez de Toledo?

Gabriel Alvarez de Toledo y Pellicer, was the Royal Librarian of King Felipe V of Spain. the rules established that the Director should be the King Confessor, at the time Pedro Robinet who delegated the day to day running and administration into Gabriel.

Don Gabriel was born in Seville, and was a founder Member of the Royal Spanish Academy in 1713, Secretary of the King of Spain and a Knight of the Military Order of Alcantara.

To study the first Royal Librarians and the effective day-to-day Royal Library Directors it is worth mentioning them for researching the purchases and compulsory input of books arriving at the Library: General Directors of the Royal Library:

1712-1715 : Pedro Robinet, French, Jesuit.

1715 : Esteban Lecompaseur, French, Jesuit.

1715-1723 : Guillermo Daubenton, French, Jesuit.

1723-1724 : Gabriel Bermúdez, ????.

1724 : Juan Morín, perhaps French. ????.

1724-1726 : Gabriel Bermúdez, see above, ????.

1726-1743 : Guillermo Clarke, Irish Jesuit.

1743-1747 : Jaime Antonio Febre, ????, perhaps French.

1751 : Francisco Rávago, Confessor of King Felipe V of Spain, Jesuit.

Some 15 years later the Jesuits will be ordered to leave all the territories governed by Spain and Portugal.