Ricardo Aguado

Studied at the Ateneo de Manila. He was a friend and classmate of Jose Rizal. He wrote and dedicated to Rizal on March 19, 1877. At the time of its composition, Rizal was 15 years old, a student at the Ateneo Municipal and the verses read:
Dedicated to Rizal by his classmate Ricardo Aguado, 19 March 1877.
To my Dearest Friend Jose Rizal, on His Saint?s Day, 19 March.
That merciful heart divine
Now lovingly inspires
My psaltery unrefined
With voices my mind doth seek
To sing its ardent love.
Your pleasing image alone,
In my soft heart always engraved,
Now removes from me the fraud
The loved star from sailor forlorn
As in an agitated sea.
For you?re, sweet friend of mine.
The only joy of my soul.
And always to be with you
Is my incessant desire

Also
In this sad, unfortunate land.
But since my luck denies
Me such happiness this day,
My Muse with tenderness
Its affection doth sent to you
At this pleasant hour of joy.
And cheerfully is content
Kind heaven to implore
To banish gloomy thoughts
Away from your lusty soul
And in it dwell peace and joy
That as the ardent rays
Of the sun eclipse feeble stars
With mortal grief,
As with belles-lettres you leave
Behind ?neath your footprints the rest.
That such enthusiasm your years
Frustration, wickedness, sad fears
Without perturbing your peace
Like a brook among flowers gay
With thing of beauty pass by.
And if one day finally
The Just calls you to His
Happy home of ineffable joy
Your beautiful soul
May enjoy celestial bliss.

Don Ricardo Aguado became a businessman and was one of the founders of La Cámara de Comercio de las Islas Filipinas, widely known today as The Chamber of Commerce of the Philippine Islands, is the oldest business institution in the Philippines, having been founded in 1886.

Gallery of Illustrious Filipinos (1917), by Manuel Artigas (Volume I, p. 138-145)

Death certificate