Pedro Pidal, 1st Marquess of Villaviciosa de Asturias
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Pedro José Pidal y Bernaldo de Quirós, 1st Marquess of Villaviciosa de Asturias, MP (2 November 1870 – 17 November 1941) was a Spanish peer, politician, mountaineer, writer, famed hunter and Olympic medalist. A visionary in the field of conservationism, he engineered the creation of Picos de Europa National Park in 1918 and was the first person to reach the summit of Naranjo de Bulnes, in 1904.[1]
The Marquess of Villaviciosa de Asturias | |
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Born | Pedro José Pidal y Bernaldo de Quirós (1870-11-02)2 November 1870 Somió, Spain |
Died | 17 November 1941(1941-11-17) (aged 71) Gijón, Spain |
Spouse | Jacoba Guilhou y Georgeault
(m. 1892) |
Children | 5 |
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1900 Paris | Individual competition |
Pidal took second place in pigeon shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics, an event now considered unofficial (the IOC has never decided which events were "Olympic" and which were not).[2] As a politician, he was a member of parliament for Belmonte de Miranda and Luarca, and was made senator for life in 1914.[3]