Manuel Críspulo González, 1st Marquis of Bonanza

Don Manuel Críspulo González y Soto, 1st Marquis of Bonanza (10 June 1846 – 16 October 1933), was a Spanish entrepreneur of the González Byass wine and sherry company and a philanthropist.

Early life González y Soto was born in Jerez de la Frontera, in Southern Spain, on 10 June 1846 as the fifth of a total of nine children. His father was Don Manuel María González y Angel, founder of wine and sherry bodega González Byass, his mother was Doña Victoriana Soto y Lavaggi. González y Angel had founded his wine company in 1835, aged 23. Five years later he had founded the corporation González & Dubosc with Juan Bautista Dubosc and Francisco Gutiérrez de Agüera, and the company was among the nine largest exporters of Spain. By the time of Manuel Críspulo's birth the González y Angel family was already considered among the most successful and wealthy of the city. Apart from his work at González Byass, Manuel Críspulo González y Soto was member of the organizing commission of the second region of the somatén, For his service to the establishment of the somatén in the second region he was awarded a Grand Cross of Military Merit on 6 April 1926. He was also Knight in the Order of Charles III and Commander in the Order of Isabella the Catholic. He held a golden medal awarded by the Red Cross as well.