Manuel de Guirior [SEP] date of birth
Manuel de Guirior
Manuel de Guirior (in full, "Manuel de Guirior y Portal de Huarte y Edozain, marqués de Guirior") (1708 – November 25, 1788) was a Spanish naval officer and colonial administrator. He was viceroy of New Granada from 1772 to 1776 and of Peru from July 17, 1776 to July 21, 1780.
Guirior was born into a noble family of Navarre. He entered the navy in 1733 as a lieutenant. He fought in the Seven Years' War against the English
. Doctor Juan Ramón Koening, a Belgian by birth, was named to the chair.. Viceroy Manuel de Guirior created two new chairs at the university.
Luis Enríquez de Guzmán, 9th Count of Alba de Liste founded the Naval Academy of the colony. Francisco Gil de Taboada supported the navigation school. Teodoro de Croix began the Botanic Garden of Lima.
Francisco de Borja y Aragón also founded, in Cuzco, the "Colegio del Príncipe" for sons of the Indigenous nobility and the "Colegio de San Francisco"