José Ramón Basavilbaso


José Ramón de Basavilbaso was an Argentine jurist and politician, who served as Escribano Mayor of the Government of Buenos Aires. He performs legal tasks during the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata and United Provinces of the Río de la Plata.

Biography

He was born in Buenos Aires on August 31, 1764 and baptized the following day in the Metropolitan Cathedral as Joseph Ramón Basavilbaso Ross, being his godparents Domingo de Basavilbaso and María Basavilbaso. José Ramón was the first son of Francisco Antonio Basavilbaso and María Aurelia Ross del Pozo Silva, a noble woman, belonging to a family of Scottish and Creole origin. In 1790, he was married to María Lorenza Ferrín y Pizarro, daughter of Julián Ferrín Monteagudo, born in Galicia, and María Lorenza Pizarro Rubio, born in the city.
Basavilbaso had held the position of interim notary in several periods during the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, being appointed as Notary of Government on September 19, 1791. After the May Revolution, he continued to serve as the Notary of Government. In the exercise of his office, suppressed the paseo of Real Estandarte, a ceremony held on St. Martin of Tours day.
José Ramón Basavilbaso also was Notary Public of Government of Juan Manuel de Rosas, position he held until the middle of 1830s.