Matilde Pacheco

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Pacheco and the second or maternal family name is Stewart.

Matilde Pacheco

Matilde Irene Pacheco Stewart (September 20, 1854 – February 13, 1926) was the First Lady of Uruguay at the beginning of the 20th century.

Biography

Stewart was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, daughter of Manuel Pacheco y Obes (1813–1869), a brother of Melchor Pacheco y Obes; her mother, Anne Stewart Agell, was a sister of Duncan Stewart. As a young child, she was orphaned and immigrated to Uruguay.

Matilde Pacheco married Ruperto Michaelsson Batlle (a nephew of Lorenzo Batlle y Grau) in 1872, with whom she had five children: Matilde, Ruperto, Juan Luis, Guillermo, and Carlos Michaelsson Pacheco. Afterwards she married in 1894 with a cousin of her first husband, José Batlle y Ordóñez, with whom she also had five children: César (1885); Rafael (1887); Amalia Ana (1892); Ana Amalia (1894); and Lorenzo (1897).

Bibliography

• Mercedes Vigil: Matilde, la mujer de Batlle. Planeta, 2005, ISBN 9504910955