Eduardo de Figueroa y Alonso-Martínez, 8th Count of Yebes (20 September 1899 – 11 July 1984) was a Spanish aristocrat, architect, politician and writer. He was a member of parliament for Barbastro, fellow of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and president of the National Board of Trophy Hunting Homologation.Priego (2017). p. 173
Early life He was born in Madrid as the sixth child of Alvaro de Figueroa y Torres, 1st Count of Romanones, who was Prime Minister of Spain, and his wife Casilda Alonso-Martínez y Martín, the daughter of Manuel Alonso Martínez.Priego (2017). p. 173 He had six siblings: Casilda, Luis, Álvaro, Carlos, José and Agustín. His brother Álvaro was Mayor of Madrid between 1921 and 1922, José won a silver medal in polo at the 1920 Summer Olympics and Agustín was a successful movie director, and the father-in-law of singer Raphael.
Hunting
Yebes has gone down as one of the most well-known hunters of the 20th century.Walker (2004). p. 104 His book Veinte Años de Caza Mayor (Twenty Years of Big Game Hunting) was prologued by Ortega y Gasset and is still considered one of the gems of hunting literature.Stephen Bodio, Sportsman's Library: 100 Essential, Engaging, Offbeat, and Occasionally Odd Fishing and Hunting Books for the Adventurous Reader, Rowman & Littlefield (Apr., 2013), p. 210 He was described as "tough and wiry and willing to work for his trophy despite being a nobleman".Walker (2004). p. 105
Amongst his achievements are harvesting the current world record giant sable antelope in Angola in 1949, currently on show at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales.Walker (2004). p. 105Pedro Vaz Pinto, Evolutionary history of the critically endangered giant sable antelope (Hippotragus niger variani): Insights into its phylogeography, population, genetics, demography and conservation, University of Porto (Porto, 2017), p. 9Priego (2017). p. 173 He was also the first to document the existence of the Iberian ibex in the Penibaetic System.Concepción Diez-Pastor Iribas. «Eduardo de Figueroa y Alonso Martínez». Diccionario biográfico español de la Real Academia de la Historia
Yebes was a passionate roe deer hunter since his finca, El Robledo, had a plentiful population.
He was made Honorific President of the Royal Hunting Federation of Spain and founded the National Board of Trophy Hunting Homologation with fellow hunters in 1950, a body of which he was the first president.Priego (2017). p. 173
He died in Madrid in July 1984.ABC Madrid: 14 June 1984
Issue
On 3 July 1922, he married Carmen Muñoz y Roca-Tallada at San Fermín de los Navarros in Madrid. They had two children:
Mercedes de Figueroa y Muñoz (b. 1924) María del Carmen de Figueroa y Muñoz, 9th Countess of Yebes (b. 1929)
Title 8th Count of YebesRevista Hidalguía número 56. Año 1963, p. 50
Selected works 20 Años de Caza Mayor, Plus Ultra, Madrid, 1948.
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