Francisco Gil de Taboada

Biography

Francisco Gil de Taboada Francisco Gil de Taboada y Lemos (in full Francisco Gil de Taboada y de Lemos y Vila Marín) (September 24, 1733 in Santa María de Souto Longo, Galicia, Spain – 1809 in Madrid) was a Galician Spanish naval officer and colonial administrator in South America. He was briefly viceroy of New Granada in 1789, and from March 25, 1790 to June 6, 1796 he was viceroy of Peru.[1] After his viceregal service he returned to Spain, where he became a member of the governing junta after King Ferdinand VII was forced to abdicate by Napoleon. He was director general of the Spanish Royal Navy.

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