Guillermo Ross
Guillermo Ross was a Scottish army officer and politician, who served for the Spanish Monarchy, occupying the positions of Sergeant Major and Governor of Buenos Aires.Biography
He was son of Alexander Ross and Margaret Munro, a family originally from the north of Scotland. He arrived at the port of Buenos Aires as a member of the Company of the Real Asiento de Inglaterra. He held honorary positions in the city, being appointed as Sargento Mayor :es:Fuerte de Buenos Aires|de la Plaza and served on an interim basis the governorship of Buenos Aires.
His condition of professing the Protestant religion brought him many problems to establish himself in Buenos Aires. In 1740, he obtained permission of the authorities to marry with María Antonia Jacinta del Pozo Silva Toledo, daughter of Francisco Alonso del Pozo Silva and Antonia de Toledo Ojeda, belonging to a family of political officials of the city. His daughters, María Cristina Ross was married to Gregorio Ramos Mexía, and Maria Aurelia Ross with Francisco Antonio Basavilbaso, son of one of the richest and most powerful families in Buenos Aires.
His son, Jorge Ross del Pozo Silva was born on 15 July 1742 and was baptized on 17 July that year, being his godfather Roberto Young, a well-known doctor of the city of Scottish origin. Through his grandsons, Hilario Ramos Mexía and Ildefonso Ramos Mexía, the blood of Guillermo Ross was present during the May Revolution of 1810, events that gave origin to the establishment of the Argentine Republic.
