Signatories on the Banco de Londres y México notes
Interventor
Pedro Landázuri was appointed Interventor on 13 October 1886informe of interventor Landázuri, 27 July 1897 in Memoria de las Instituciones de Crédito, correspondientes a los años 1897-1898-1899, tomo I. Landázuri was born in Guadajalara, Jalisco on 28 January 1832. A member of the Liberal party, he fought against the French as a colonel and was President Lerdo de Tejada’s private secretary. He joined the Consular Service in 1874 and served in Germany from 1874 to 1878. He was a state deputy in Jalisco 1867–1868, federal deputy from Jalisco 1869-1871, federal deputy from San Luis Potosí 1878-1880 and from Jalisco 1886-1905. He died on 29 November 1905. |
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Francisco Cortina é Icaza | ![]() |
M. Elguera | ![]() |
Cajero
Herbert Champion Jones was born in Croydon, England in 1864 to William Anastasius Jones, an early director of the Banco de Londres, México y Sud América, and Catherine Susanna Valentine Bates. He passed away on 11 January 1910 in Mexico City. |
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R. Herrera Zamora | ![]() |
Julio Aspel | ![]() |
Consejero
Andres Bermejillo Andres Bermejillo was also a Director of la Casa de Cambio y Comisión and vicepresident of the Compañía Minera Los Peñoles. |
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Manuel González Cosío | ![]() |
José Sánchez Ramos and Thomas Braniff organized the joint-stock company, San Rafael y Anexas, S. A., in 1894, with an initial issue of five million pesos in stock. San Rafael undertook an aggressive strategy of mergers that gave the firm a monopoly in the production of newsprint, the most lucrative product line in the paper market. | ![]() |
León Signoret | ![]() |
Remigio Noriega | ![]() |
Francisco Espinosa | ![]() |
![]() Thomas (Tomás) H. Braniff for a detailed account of his family see María del Carmen Collado, La Burguesía Mexicana. El emporio Braniff y su participación política 1865-1920, México, 1987 was born on Staten Island, New York, in 1830, the son of Irish immigrants. In 1863 he came to Mexico to work on the construction of the Mexico-Veracruz railway. When emperor Maximilian was defeated Braniff managed to become a shareholder, and in 1874 a director of the railroad company, a position he retained until his death. He was one of the business magnates of his time, investing heavily through his corporations in the most dynamic and up-to-date industries of the day. for example in 1890 in the Compañía Fundidora de Fierro y Acero de Monterrey, and later in CIDOSA, the largest textile company in the country. He also founded and helped fund the Compañía Papelera San Rafael y Anexas in 1894, the only paper producer for newspapers in the country. He was a minor investor in the Compañía Eléctrica e Irrigadora in the state of Hidalgo; in the Compañía Cigarrera el Buen Tono, the largest in its sector, and in the Fábrica de Tejidos San Ildefonso. His investments in real estate were also large, owning many lots on both sides of Paseo de la Reforma. Braniff had shares in the Banco de Londres y México and in the Banco Internacional e Hipotecario. Braniff increased his capital thanks to his excellent relationship with President Diaz and his closest associates, and also with Mexico's Barcelonnettes, an important group of investors born in the Valley of Barcelonnette, France. The alliance with this French group helped him to find financial support from their Société Financière pour l’industrie du Mexique, a company that placed shares in Paris and Geneva. When he died in 1905, he left a fortune of over nine million pesos. |
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Henri Tron | ![]() |
He was a federal deputy from Oaxaca (1884 – 1894 and 1896 – 1912) or from Guanajuato for the two years 1894 – 1896. He was a leader of the Científicos and supported Ramón Corral as a successor to Porfirio Díaz. He died on 13 September 1914. |
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Jules Tron | ![]() |
José Spitalier | ![]() |
Ignacio de la Torre y Mier | ![]() |
José Sainz | ![]() |
Enrique Domenge | ![]() |
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Henry Campbell Waters | ![]() |
James Walker | ![]() |
Francisco Yarza | ![]() |
William Bain Mitchell | ![]() |
Sub-gerente
Guillermo Höpfner | ![]() |