About Álvaro Domecq y Díez
Don Álvaro Domecq y Díez (1 July 1917 – 5 October 2005) was born into an aristocratic Spanish sherry family in Jerez, of Cádiz, a province of Andalucia in southwestern Spain. He distinguished himself as a fighter pilot in the Spanish Civil War on the Nationalist's side, and later re-introduced bullfighting on horseback to Spain. Domecq further developed bull breeding and presided as patriarch over a bullfighting dynasty. == Life == Álvaro Domecq y Díez was born in Jerez on 1 July 1917. His mother died in a riding accident when he was four years old, and Álvaro was educated by Jesuits in Madrid. After the fall of the monarchy, he travelled to Bordeaux and Estremoz in Portugal where he studied law. But any plans for a legal career were curtailed by the 1936–39 Civil War. He married María Josefa Romero in 1938. === British and Irish links === In 1725, an Irishman, Patrick Murphy, had set up the sherry company that the Domecqs, then a minor French noble family, inherited in 1822. The London firm of Matthew Clark and Sons handled imports to Britain for many years.
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