Francisco Aparicio y Ruiz

{{Short description|Spanish lawyer and politician}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1852|07|17|df=y}}

| birth_place = Burgos, Spain

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1936|11|6|1852|07|17|df=y}}

| death_place = Burgos, Spain

| nationality = Spanish

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| occupation = Lawyer and politician

| years_active = 1880s-1920s

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| party = Conservative Party (Spain)

| office = Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts

| term_start = 31 March 1921

| term_end = 13 August 1921

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| president = Alfonso XIII

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Francisco Aparicio y Ruiz (17 July 1852 in Burgos — 6 November 1932 in Burgos) was a Spanish lawyer and politician.

He studied and was educated in Madrid. In his youth he was a director of his local newspaper, Caput Castellae. He was a member of the Conservative Party, provincial deputy for Burgos in 1888, president of the Provincial Delegation of Burgos in 1890, Director General of Local Administration in 1899 and Deputy Secretary of Finance in 1900, Regional Commissioner of the Treasury in 1918 and Governor of Madrid in 1919. He was a member of the Congress for Burgos from 1891 to 1923{{cite web|url=http://www.congreso.es/portal/page/portal/Congreso/Congreso/SDocum/ArchCon/SDHistoDipu/SDIndHistDip?_piref73_1340024_73_1340023_1340023.next_page=/wc/servidorCGI&CMD=VERLST&BASE=DIPH&FMT=DIPHXLDA.fmt&DOCS=1-25&DOCORDER=FIFO&OPDEF=Y&QUERY=%286950%29.NDIP.|title=APARICIO Y RUIZ, FRANCISCO|publisher=congreso.es|access-date=August 9, 2015|archive-date=September 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924122855/http://www.congreso.es/portal/page/portal/Congreso/Congreso/SDocum/ArchCon/SDHistoDipu/SDIndHistDip?_piref73_1340024_73_1340023_1340023.next_page=/wc/servidorCGI&CMD=VERLST&BASE=DIPH&FMT=DIPHXLDA.fmt&DOCS=1-25&DOCORDER=FIFO&OPDEF=Y&QUERY=(6950).NDIP.|url-status=live}} and also served as Vice-President of Congress from 1901 to 1910.{{cite book |last= Alvarez Lázaro |first=Pedro F. |date=2001 |title=Cien años de educación en España: en torno a la creación del Ministerio de Instrucción Pública y Bellas Artes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wEaMnl6ak6UC&q=Francisco+Aparicio+y+Ruiz&pg=PA91 |language=Spanish |publisher=Ministerio de Educación |page=91 |isbn=8436934296 |access-date=August 9, 2015}} He was Minister of Public Instruction between 13 March and 14 August 1921 in the government presided over by Manuel Allendesalazar Muñoz{{cite journal |date=1975 |title=Revista de educación, Issues 236-241 |journal=Revista de Educación |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HDUXqmg34rMC&q=Francisco+Aparicio+y+Ruiz&pg=PA123 |publisher=Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (Spain) |page=124 |issn=0034-8082 |access-date=August 9, 2015}}{{cite book |last=Jiménez-Landi |first=Antonio |date=1996 |title=La Institución Libre de Enseñanza y su ambiente: Periodo de expansión influyente |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hTzNJJ-baY8C&q=Francisco+Aparicio+y+Ruiz&pg=PA640 |publisher=Edicions Universitat Barcelona |page=531 |isbn=8489365997 |access-date=August 9, 2015}} and reign of Alfonso XIII.

Further details about his life and death are unknown.