Campomanes, Pedro

RODRIGUEZ, COUNT OF, a distinguished Spanish statesman, B. in Asturias, 1723. In 1765 he was appointed fiscal advocate to the royal council of Castile, and was made afterwards minister of state. He was a friend of Aranda, and took part in the expulsion of the Jesuits by that minister. He labored zealously to rouse the industry of Spain from its state of torpor, and wrote several good works on the education of the people, and especially of the artisans. Under the ministry of Florida Blanca, Campo manes was removed from the council, and lived afterwards in retire ment. D. 1802. Cam'pos, a town of the island of Majorca, 22 m. S.E. of Palma, and 7 from the sea; pop. 4,541.