Pedro Rodríguez de Campomanes y Pérez Sorriba, 1st Count of Campomanes, was a Spanish statesman, economist, and writer who was Minister of the Treasury in 1760. He was an adherent of the position that
Portrait by Francisco Bayeu, 1777
Posthumous portrait by Eduardo Balaca, 1879
The suppression of the Society of Jesus was the removal of all members of the Jesuits from most of Western Europe and their respective colonies beginning in 1759 along with the abolition of the order
Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes
…the crown with his 1747 publication on the history of the Knights Templar, which gained recognition by the Royal Academy of History and influenced the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767. In 1750, he wrote under the pseudonym Rodrigo Perianes Campo an important text on the political economy of Spain. Among his principal works…
Charles III of Spain, who ordered the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spanish realms
Motín de Esquilache, Madrid, attributed to Francisco de Goya (c. 1766, 1767)
Manuel de Roda, adviser to Charles III, who brought together an alliance of those opposed to the Jesuits
José de Gálvez, Visitador generál in New Spain (1765–71), was instrumental in the Jesuit expulsion in 1767 in Mexico, considered part of the Bourbon Reforms.