Guillermo de Landa y Escandón

Guillermo Landa y Escandón (2 May 1842 – 1 March 1927) was a Mexican politician and businessman. He was governor of the Federal District of Mexico. He was one of the Porfirio Díaz administration's Científicos.

Early life Landa was born on 2 May 1842 as the son of José María Casto Francisco Javier Landa Martínez (Mexico City, 22 May 1811–Mexico City, 10 February 1876), a member of the Council of Notables of the Second Mexican Empire, and wife (24 April 1843) María Francisca Escandón Garmendia (Puebla, 10 September 1815–1869), a Lady-in-waiting to the Empress Charlotte (wife of Maximilian I of Mexico).

He studied at Stonyhurst College, the Jesuit independent school on the Stonyhurst Estate, Lancashire, England, from 1858 to 1862.

Career A prominent Mexican politician and businessman, Landa served as the governor of the Federal District of Mexico. Together, they were the parents of: María de la Luz de Landa y Ossio (1880–1969), who married Sebastian Bernardo de Mier in 1910. After his death in 1917, she married William Douglas Arbuthnot-Leslie, 13th of Warthill. As a wedding present, he bought them Lickleyhead Castle. After they divorced in 1944, she married Capt. Ronald Edward Warlow. Guillermo "Billy" de Landa y Ossio (1894–1948), a playboy who married British socialite Kathleen Moore, Countess of Drogheda (former wife of Henry Moore, 10th Earl of Drogheda), in 1922. They divorced in 1929. Sofía de Landa y Ossio (1898–1964), who married Guillermo Limantour y Cañas. Carmen de Landa y Ossio (b. 1901), who married Juan Francisco de Béistegui Yturbe. José Manuel "Pepe" de Landa y Ossio, who married Virginia ( Willys) de Aguirre, former wife of Argentine rancher Luis Marcelino de Aguirre, and daughter of the former U.S. Ambassador to Poland, John Willys.

Landa died in Cannes, France on 1 March 1927.

Descendants He is a great-great-grandparent of actress Rose Leslie and attorney Alexander Clark.