Dióscoro Teófilo de la Puebla y Tolín
Melgar de Fernamental (Burgos) 1832 - Madrid 1901

Dióscoro Teófilo de la Puebla y Tolín studied at the San Fernando Academy, where he specialised in historical painting and portraits, which he signed with his nickname. He won a stipend from the State to study in Rome, where he lived for five years. He sent his canvases to the National Fine Arts Exhibitions, where he received different accolades, including a Third Place Medal in 1860 and a First Place Medal in 1862 for The First Landing of Christopher Columbus in America. He lived in Cadiz, where he taught Colour and Composition at the Fine Arts School in 1864; he also worked at the Madrid School of Arts and Crafts (1871) and at school in San Fernando in 1883. He went on to become the director of this last school, taking over from Luis de Madrazo. He was the Deputy Chairman of the Association of Authors and Artists, and became a member of the Academy of San Fernando in 1882.

• Julián Gállego Serrano
• María José Alonso

Martín Belda y Mencía del Barrio, Marquis of Cabra (Cabra, Cordoba 1820 - Madrid 1882)
Governor of the Banco de España 1878 - 1881

Martín Belda y Mencía del Bario was the son of Francisco Belda Calabuig, a cloth merchant and Post Office worker from Bocairente (Valencia), and of Rosa Mencía del Barrio López from Cabra (Cordoba). He belonged to the Moderate Party and was member of parliament for Cabra in several parliamentary terms between 1847 and 1879. He was Minister of the Navy twice, the first time in 1867, but resigned from the post. He became Minister of the Navy again in 1868 in the last Government of Isabella II, which ended with the September uprisings. He accompanied Isabella II to exile in Paris, and was there in 1870 when she renounced her dynastic rights in favour of Prince Alfonso. In 1873 Belda appeared as a member of Alfonso’s circle led by Cánovas del Castillo, which indicated a shift away from the Moderate Party. In 1875 King Alfonso XII made him Marquis of Cabra. He was Governor of the Banco de España from February 1878 to March 1881, when the bank opened branches in Tarragona, Reus, Cordoba, Granada and Badajoz. He died in Madrid in 1882 without offspring. His title went to Francisco Méndez de San Julián y Belda, his nephew on the side of his sister.

Elena Serrano García