Zobel de Ayala family is a Filipino family.
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History
The Ayala family trace their origin to Juan Larrazabal Ayala a wealthy land owner from Spain's northern mountainous region of Alava, in the Basque province. A descendant of the family, Antonio de Ayala from Spain settled in the Philippines in the 1800s.
The Roxas family and the Ayala family became a clan, when Antonio de Ayala married Margarita Roxas, the daughter of his business partner Domingo Roxas, the founder of Roxas y Cia, the progenitor of Ayala Corporation. Domingo Roxas was a descendant of Mexican immigrant Antonio Fernandez de Roxas of Acapulco, who settled in the Philippines in 1695.
The Zobel family trace their origin to Johannes Andreas Zobel, a German pharmacist who married a Spanish-Filipino, settled in Manila and established the first chemical laboratory of the Philippines in 1834. His grandson Jacobo Zobel y Zangroniz, the first Filipino-born Zobel, would marry Trinidad de Ayala, the daughter of Margarita Roxas de Ayala.
Today the Zobel de Ayala family owns the Ayala Corporation, a conglomerate that controls leading Philippine companies in finance, real estate, utilities, and telecommunications. Some of the companies the family owns are the Bank of the Philippine Islands, Ayala Land, Manila Water Company, and Globe Telecom. Ayala Corporation developed the majority of Makati City's residential and commercial areas since the 1940s. Some of the notable Philippine residential sites attributed to the family's efforts include Forbes Park, Dasmariñas Village, Bel-Air Village, San Lorenzo Village, Urdaneta Village and Magallanes Village. In addition, the Ayala Corporation developed the center of Makati now known as Ayala Center and its surrounding throughfares (Ayala Avenue, Makati Avenue, Paseo de Roxas and Sen. Gil Puyat Ave,) which now comprises the Manila buildings.
The De La Salle-Santiago Zobel School is named after Jacobo Santiago Zobel (1954-1965), the eldest son of Enrique Zobel. [1]
Prominent members
- Jacobo Zobel y Zangroniz (1842-1896) the first Filipino Zobel
- Enrique Zobel de Ayala (1877-1943), patriarch of the Zobel de Ayala family
- Fernando Zobel de Ayala y Montojo (1924–1984), the modern painter and arts patron
- Enrique Zobel y Olgado (1927–2004), former chief executive officer of Ayala Corporation
- Jaime Zobel de Ayala (born 1934), chairman emeritus of Ayala Corporation
- Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala II (born 1959)
- Fernando Zobel de Ayala y Miranda (born 1960)
- Consuelo Zobel de Ayala Alger (1914-?) philanthropist
- Ricardo Padilla y Satrustegui (1919-1999) Filipino and benefactor of Premio Zobel
References
- Brillantes, Lourdes. 81 Years of Premio Zobel. Georgina Padilla y Zobel, Makati: 2006.
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