Fernando León y Castillo

{{Short description|Spanish politician and diplomat}}

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Fernando León y Castillo, Marqués del Muni (Telde, Canary Islands, November 30, 1842{{cite book |last1=Aguilar |first1=Francisco Morales |last2=Cubas |first2=Agustín Millares |title=Don Fernando de León y Castillo.-Don Benito Pérez Galdós |date=1886 |publisher=La Atlántida |page=6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FTk-AQAAMAAJ&dq=Fernando+Le%C3%B3n+%221842%22+telde&pg=PA6 |access-date=28 February 2024 |language=es}} - Biarritz, France, March 12, 1918{{cite book |title=Revista Hidalguía número 325. Año 2007 |publisher=Ediciones Hidalguia |page=810 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Z_vXDLAgZcC&dq=Fernando+Le%C3%B3n+%2212+de+marzo+de+1918%22+biarritz&pg=PA810 |access-date=28 February 2024 |language=es}}{{cite web |title=Excmo Senor |url=https://www.senado.es/cgi-bin/verdocweb?tipo_bd=HI20&PWIndice=64&Signatura=HIS-0308-04&Contenido=29 |website=senado.es |access-date=28 February 2024}}) was a Spanish politician and diplomat, he decided on an intervention of Spain and North Africa.

He went to Madrid and collaborated in liberal publications in the late years of Isabella II. From the Revolution of 1868, he was nominated a governor of Granada and Valencia.{{cite book |last1=Santos |first1=Modesto Sánchez de los |title=Las Cortes españolas, las de 1907|date=1908 |publisher=Estab. tip. de A. Marzo |page=129 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y9kCAAAAYAAJ&dq=Fernando+Le%C3%B3n+%22Gobernador+de+granada%22&pg=PA129 |access-date=28 February 2024 |language=es}}

He was successively elected deputy and senator for the province of the Canary Islands, and in 1874 he was named the overseas sub-secretary.{{cite book |last1=Tinao |first1=Luis Pablo Bourgón |title=Los puertos francos y el régimen especial de Canarias |date=1982 |publisher=Instituto de Estudios de Administración Local |isbn=978-84-7088-316-3 |page=38 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LXsRAAAAYAAJ&q=%221874%22%20fernando |access-date=28 February 2024 |language=es}}

After the restoration with Sagasta as ministry of overseas (Prime Minister several times including 1881-1883 (1886–1887). In 1887, he became ambassador to France until 1918. In 1900 he was granted the title of Marquis of Muni for negotiating with France over the Spanish Guinea (present-day Equatorial Guinea) in the Treaty of Paris.{{cite web |title=Fernando de León y Castillo |url=https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/15719/fernando-de-leon-y-castillo |website=dbe.rah.es |access-date=28 February 2024}}

He participated in the Algeciras Conference in 1906