1821
Guillermo Rawson, Argentinian physician and politician (died 1890)
Guillermo Rawson, Argentinian physician and politician (died 1890)
Guillermo Rawson, Argentinian physician and politician (died 1890)
Guillermo Rawson
Argentine doctor and politician (1821–1890)
- Born
- 1821
Guillermo Rawson was a medical doctor and politician in nineteenth-century Argentina. In 1862, when he was the Interior Minister of Argentina, he met Captain Love Jones-Parry and Lewis Jones, who were on their way to Patagonia to investigate whether it was suitable for the creation of a Welsh settlement there. Rawson came to an agreement with them, and this resulted in the creation of a colony in the Chubut Valley in the following years. The city of Rawson, the capital of the province of Chubut, was named after him.