Pedro Gandarias

Pedro Pascual Gandarias Urquijo (16 February 1901 – Unknown) was a Spanish athlete, politician, and financier. He was an important board member of club Puerta de Hierro in Madrid, and was one of the six founders of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation. He was also a bullfighting rancher, being the owner of the Castillo de Higares ranch. His birth came just two days after the death of his grandfather, Pedro Pascual Gandarias, so he was named in his honor. He was the oldest of seven children, five sons and two daughters, including Juan Manuel and José. He was a midfielder.

Bullfighting Gandarias was also a bullfighting rancher, whose cattle grazed on the Castillo de Higares farm, in the municipality of Mocejón, in the province of Toledo. In 1954, Castillo de Higares was used to film the 1954 movie Chateâux en Espagne ("The Bullfighter"), a Spanish-French co-production directed by René Wheeler and starring a popular actress, Danielle Darrieux, who denounced the rigging of the bullfights and vindicated the purity of "The Bullfighter" compared to the actual bullfights.

Later life In politics, Gandarias was a senator by appointment of the Crown, He was also a director of Constructora Naval, Minas del Rif, Altos Hornos, Unión Española de Explosivos, Firestone, Compañía de Fernando Poo, Eléctrica de Castilla, and Unión Eléctrica Madrileña.