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Alfonso Cabeza de Vaca y Leighton, 11th Marquess of Portago, GE (11 October 1928 – 12 May 1957), [1] best known as Alfonso de Portago, was a Spanish aristocrat, racing and bobsleigh driver, jockey and pilot.
Jan 1, 1970 · Don Alfonso Cabeza de Vaca y Leighton, Carvajal y Are, Conde de la Mejorada, Marquis de Portago, was 28 when he died at Guidizzollo, a few miles from Brescia and the end of the Mille Miglia, on...
Alfonso Cabeza de Vaca y Leighton, 11th Marquess of Portago (11 October 1928 – 12 May 1957), best known as Alfonso de Portago, was a Spanish aristocrat, racing driver and bobsleigh driver.
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Oct 11, 2019 · Alfonso Antonio Vicente Eduardo Angel Blas Francisco de Borja Cabeza de Vaca y Leighton, Marquis of Portago, better known as Alfonso de Portago, was a Ferrari race car driver, Olympic bobsledder and stunt pilot from Spain, who was born on this day in 1928.
His full name was Alfonso Antonio Vicente Eduardo Angel Blas Francisco de Borja Cabeza de Vaca y Leighton: for short, the Marquis de Portago. He was both the sort of man a middle-aged post-war Don Quixote would love to be and a kind of Quixote himself, a precocious version of his near-namesake Alonso Quixano transformed and killed decades too ...
- Ed Cripps
Info from. Alfonso António Vicente Eduardo Ángel Blas Francisco de Borja Cabeza de Vaca y Leighton was born in London on October 11, 1928 as the 13th count of Majorada and the 17th marquis of Portago, but better known to the world as Alfonso de Portago. His father was a Spanish nobleman named António and his mother.
Noble español, hijo del actor y deportista Antonio Cabeza de Vaca y Carvajal, X marqués de Portago y XII conde de la Mejorada, y de su segunda mujer, la rica norteamericana, Olga Beatriz Leighton-Ayre. Nació y fue bautizado en Londres, siendo el rey Alfonso XIII su padrino.
