Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes
Pedro Rodríguez de Campomanes (1723–1802) was a Spanish statesman and economist born at Tineo in Asturias. After studying law, he won notice in Madrid with a 1747 work on the Knights Templar and became Minister of the Treasury in 1760. A chief reformist adviser to Charles III, he drove the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767.
His essays of 1774–1775 urged the revival of Spanish crafts and denounced guild privileges. He presided over the Council of Castile from 1788 until Charles IV dismissed him in 1793, and died in 1802.