José Antonio Gandarillas

José Antonio Gandarillas Luco (1839 – 9 February 1913) was a Chilean lawyer and Liberal politician.

Early life Gandarillas was born in Santiago de Chile in 1839. He was the son of José Santiago Gandarillas Guzmán and María del Carmen Luco Huici.

His paternal grandparents were Santiago Gandarillas Romero and María del Carmen Guzmán Ibáñez. His uncle was Senator Manuel José Gandarillas Guzmán, who served as Ministry of Government and Foreign Affairs under Ramón Freire, the first President of Chile.

He was educated at the College of the Sacred Hearts of Santiago between 1849 and 1852,

Career In 1863, he became rapporteur of the Court of Appeals of Santiago before becoming a Commercial Judge of Santiago in 1869 and an Alternate Minister of the Court of Appeals of Santiago in 1875, which he resigned from in 1882. From 1869 to 1895, he was part of the drafting commissions of the penal code and the code of civil procedures.

In 1886, he was unsuccessfully nominated for the Presidency of the Republic, along with José Manuel Balmaceda. Together, they were the parents of:

José Antonio "Tony" Gandarillas Huici (1885–1970), also a diplomat who married Juana Edwards Mac-Clure, a daughter of the President of the Senate of Chile Agustín Edwards Ross; a bisexual, he was also the partner of painter Christopher Wood. Carmen Gandarillas Huici (b. ), who did not marry.

Gandarillas died in Santiago on 9 February 1913.

Descendants Through his son, he was the grandfather of Marie Rose Gandarillas Edwards (1912–1995), who married Carlos Eastman Beéche, Juana Carlota Victoria Gandarillas Edwards (1916–2005), and Carmen Gandarillas Edwards (1914–1985), who was engaged to George Harcourt Vanden-Bampde-Johnstone, 3rd Baron Derwent, shortly before his death in 1949; she later married Thomas Alexander Scott.