Manuel Rodríguez Torices

Gender:Male

Ethnic origen: White

Events:

1788  -  Bogotá  -  Not applicable  -  He was born around 1788.
1810  -  Bogotá  -  Unknown  -  He attended the Buen Gusto tertulias.
1816  -  Bogotá  -  Patriot  -  He was executed by the royalists in Bogotá.
1816  -  Cauca  -  Patriot  -  He was captured by the royalists here in 1816.

Connections:

Tertulia, Buen Gusto

Biography:
Born around 1788, the son of Matías Rodríguez Torices, a Spaniard, and María Trinidad Quirós, from Bogotá and brother of Andrés Rodríguez. He was deported with Pantaleón Gutíerrez, Sinforoso Mutis and Camilo Manrique. He was captured by the royalists in Cauca in 1816 and made to walk to Bogotá. He was shot, then hung and beheaded; his head was then displayed at the Sabana railway station. (Monsalve, 167)

He attended Manuela Sanz de Santamaría's tertulias. He was hung for his pro-independence activities. (Monsalve, 24)

References:

Monsalve, José D (1926) Mujeres de la independencia