Victoriano G. de Ysasi

Victoriano Gregorio de Ysasi Jáuregui (c. 1816 – 8 August 1881) was a Spanish wine merchant and philatelist resident in London. He was an early member of the Philatelic Society, London, later the Royal Philatelic Society London. Shortly before his death, major parts of his collection of the stamps of Spain and its colonies were acquired by Thomas Tapling. He died from injuries received in a railway accident at Blackburn while waiting in a carriage at a railway station when a connecting train failed to stop in time. Early life Victoriano Gregorio de Ysasi Jáuregui was born in Málaga, Spain, around 1816, into a well-known Andalusian family of Basque descent, active in the Sherry and Malaga wine trade. He moved to London in 1847 to learn the English side of the trade and took a post as a partner in the firm of his cousin who traded as Ysasi & Co. at 5 Water Lane Tower Street. Career De Ysasi traded as a wine merchant in London, and set up his own firm of G. V. de Ysasi & Co. He married Clara Ransome of King's Lynn in 1862 at Islington, and they had five children: Victoriano, Manuel, Teresa, and Margarita. At the time of his death, his address was given as 5 Water Lane, a street on the edge of the River Thames, in the City of London. In the 1870s, until the time of his death, he lived at 39 Brondesbury Villas, Kilburn.