Miguel Herrera de Tejada

In this Spanish name, the family name is Herrera.

Miguel Herrera de Tejada (3 November 1828 – 2 February 1887) was a Spanish journalist and secretary of the editorial staff of the neo-Catholic newspaper El Pensamiento Español, one of the leading Carlist house organs of the second half of the 19th century.

Biography

Miguel Herrera de Tejada was born at Arahal in the Province of Seville, the son of Antonio Martín de Herrera, a doctor from Osuna, and Ana María Pascual de Tejada, from Paradas, both of whom lived in Arahal. His maternal grandfather, Esteban Pascual de Tejada, a native of Laguna de Cameros, was a member of the Ancient and Illustrious Solar de Tejada in 1799 and a first cousin of the merchant and politician Romualdo Pascual de Tejada.

He graduated with a degree in Philosophy from the University of Seville in 1856. While he lived in Seville, his tutor was Antonio Martín Villa, who was secretary general (1834–1852) and rector (1854–1868) of the Literary University of Seville.

He decided to continue his studies by enrolling at the Central University of Madrid and obtained a bachelor's degree in Pharmacy in 1861. At the same university he obtained a licentiate in Pharmacy in 1866 and did his internship at the Madrid pharmacy of José de Palacios y Rodríguez from 1861 to 1863. After completing his studies, he returned to his homeland where he set up a pharmacy in Paradas.

During his stay in Madrid he made good friends with some of the thinkers most closely linked to Carlism at the time. His political concerns led him and his friend José Alonso de Ibáñez, Marquis of Santa Cruz de Inguanzo, Francisco Navarro Villoslada and Gabino Tejado to found the newspaper El Pensamiento Español, the leading exponent of the current known as neo-Catholicism, which would soon become one of the main Carlist newspapers of its time.

He was a personal friend of Cándido Nocedal and his son Ramón, founder of the Integrist Party.

Miguel Herrera de Tejada died unmarried in Arahal at the age of 58.

Private life

Although he had no children, some of his relatives inherited his political interests, such as his nephew Joaquín Herrera Maguilla, deputy mayor of Seville (1935–1936); and his grandnephews José María Herrera Barrera, mayor of Paradas (1933-1936); Joaquín Herrera Blanco, Marquis of Mirabal, mayor of La Puebla de Cazalla (1941–1947); Manuel Herrera Blanco, mayor of Arahal; and José Herrera Blanco, mayor of Fuentes de Andalucía. All of them were members of conservative parties.