Tomas Terry y Adan

Tomás Terry y Adán (died 1886) was a Cuban business magnate.

Of Venezuelan origin, Terry initially became involved in the slave trade in Cuba, making his first $10,000 by buying sick slaves, nursing them back to health, and then reselling them healthy for a large profit. He bought the Caracas sugar mill for $23,000, and upgraded it to be the first in Cuba to use electricity. He went on to make a fortune through involvement in all aspects of the economy, from the sugar trade and slave trade to banking and imports, becoming the dominant businessman in Cienfuegos and earning the nickname the "Cuban Croesus". His fortune grew to be among the largest in the world, with a net worth of about $725,000 in 1851, $3,090,00 in 1860, $7,890,000 in 1870, $13,760,000 in 1880, and over $25,000,000 at his death in 1886. He married a daughter of Andrés Dorticós, a prominent local merchant.

Descendants Portrait of María del Carmen Terry, 1st Marchioness of Perinat by Raimundo Madrazo. Madrid, Museo del Prado.

On 31 October 1837, Terry married Teresa Dorticós y Gómez de Leys, daughter of Andrés Dorticós, a prominent local merchant and governor of Cienfuegos, and María del Carmen Gómez de Leys y La Puente.

They had 10 children:

   Tomás

   Teresa

   Andrés

   María del Carmen, wife Guillermo Perinat y Ochoa, treasurer of the Royal Incomes. On 6 March 1893, she was granted of title of Marchioness of Perinat by Queen Regent Maria Christina of Austria on the name of her son Alfonso XIII. She had two children:

       Luis (1872–1923), married to Ana María de Elío y Gaztelu, 9th Marchioness of Campo Real, Grandee of Spain (1895–1964), with issue.

       María Teresa (1875–1918), married to José Alfonso de Bustos y Ruiz de Arana, 3rd Duke of Andría, Grandee of Spain (1883–1940), without issue.

   Eudardo

   Juan Pedro

   Francisco Javier (1850–1918). Married to Antonia Sánchez y Sarriá and had three children:

       Natalia (1877–1962), married to French politician Count Stanislas de Castellane (1876–1959), younger brother of celebrated dandy Boni de Castellane, with issue.

       Emilio (1890–1969), famous architect, interior decorator and landscape designer.

       Odette, married to Prince Charles de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais (1877–1940), with issue.

   José Emilio (1853–1911), deputy to Cortes for the province of Havana in 1886. Married to Silvia Alfonso-Aldama y Fonts, without issue.

   María Natividad (1854–1928), married to Italian politician and diplomat Baron Alberto Blanc (1835–1904), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Italy from 1893 to 1896. They had three children:

       Margherita (1884–1961), married Camillo Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Candriano (1882–1949), without surviving issue.

       Giovanni Alberto, Baron Blanc

       Giulio (1891–1878), married to Lavinia Lante Montefeltro della Rovere (1904–1935), with issue.

   Antonio (1857–1899), married firstly to American soprano Sybil Sanderson (1864–1903) and then to Grace Dalton-Secord (1860-1895). From his second marriage, he had a daughter:

       María Natividad (1882–1960), married to Prince Guy Charles de Faucigny-Lucinge et Coligny (1876–1914), great-grandson of Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry through his daughter Charlotte, Countess of Issoudun, bore by his mistress Amy Brown (with issue, including Anne-Aymone Giscard d'Estaing).

Sources : Alain Garric + Wikipédia + http://www.cubangenclub.org/members/del_pasado/del_pasado_TomTerry.htm En 1930, Tomas TERRY s'installe à Cuba. Tomas TERRY vivait à Cienfuegos (Cuba)et passait pour être l'homme "le plus riche de Cuba".(il était surjommé "Crésus Cubain") En son hommage, le théatre de la ville s'appelle "Théatre Terry". Au nord de la place Parque Marqui, le Teatro Thomas Terry de Cienfuegos occupe un très bel édifice, avec une entrée sous des terrasses et des colonnades. Ce théâtre, qui accueillit autrefois Caruso et Sarah Bernard, possède une excellente acoustique, et sa décoration intérieure est magnifique. http://www.adpuello.com/cienfuegos.htm

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