Domíngo Róxas

Domingo Róxas y Ureta (1782 – 1843) was a Filipino businessman and industrialist. Founder of the Casa Roxas, which evolved into Ayala Corporation. And is considered as a pioneer of Filipino nationalism together with Luis Rodríguez-Varela. Roxas advocated fiercely for the rights of native Filipinos.

Biography Domíngo Róxas y Ureta was the third of four children to parents Mariano Máximo de Báez Róxas y Romero, a doctor, and Ana María Ureta. He married Maria Saturnina Ubaldo a Mestiza de Sangley from the town of Sta. Cruz on June 8, 1813 at Minor Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar. Even after the Royal Company of the Philippines had liberalized investment in agriculture, it stopped functioning in 1829. Casa Roxas focuses on cultivation of coffee, sugar, indigo and, cotton. Casa Roxas also manufacture gun power, liquors and castings. In 1842, he was arrested for the third and final time in Fort Santiago. His daughter Margarita then, sailed to the Spanish peninsula to personally ask Isabella II Queen of Spain for her fathers release. The Queen ordered the immediate release of his father but Roxas already died back in Fort Santiago in 1843.