Scottish & Argentinian Connection Bro. Julian Alvarez was the son of the Burgos Saturnino Jose Alvarez, successful merchant, treasurer of the commerce of Buenos Aires and accountant of the court of the consulate and the Creole Ana María Perdriel. He studied at the Colegio de San Carlos and graduated in law at the University of Charcas. He participated in the May Revolution and was one of the signatories of the people's petition of May 25, which appointed those who would be the members of the First Junta.
led by minister Gregorio García de Tagle, and which served Juan Martín de Pueyrredon as political support. He directed for a time the Gazeta de Buenos Ayres. In 1819 he was an emissary of Pueyrredon before Estanislao Lopez, who was convinced that he was a dangerous enemy.
In 1820, at the outbreak of the Anarchy of the Year XX, Governor Manuel de Sarratea imprisoned him at the request of Lopez. He escaped amid the political chaos of the city a After the defeat, exile and death of Mariano few months later and fled to Montevideo. Moreno, he led the "Sociedad Patriotica", the most openly liberal group of the time. He was He supported the government of the Empire arrested during the April Revolution of 1811, of Brazil over the so-called Cisplatina Provbut soon regained his freedom. He supported ince and held some public office during the the formation of the First Triumvirate and government of Carlos Federico Lecor. When collaborated in its secretariat, exercised by it separated from Brazil and Argentina, as the Bernardino Rivadavia. Eastern State of Uruguay, it was a member of the constituent Congress of the new country It appears that he was initiated into the lodge for San Jose de Mayo, in 1830. In 1829 he had attached to the 71st Foot (The Highland Light edited the newspaper El Constitucional in CaInfantry) just before 1812 when this lodge nelones. initiated some locals when stationed in Buenos Aires. The 71st left Argentina and a lodge During the first independent decade of Uruwith Bro. Alvarez as master continued. This guay he was part of the group known as Los lodge merged with Logia Lautaro in 1812 – cinco hermanos, of great influence during the see next moth for an article on this lodge. presidency of Fructuoso Rivera. As Grand Master of the Independence Lodge of Buenos Aires in 1812, he received General Jose de San Martín on his arrival from Europe with the rest of the members of the Lautaro Lodge, to which he joined.
He was elected deputy on several occasions for which he was part of the House of Representatives of Uruguay a number of times. From 1831 he was president of the Supreme Court of Justice of Uruguay and during the Great War, he was a prominent member of He supported the Second Triumvirate, alt- the Government of Defence. hough he was briefly arrested for having demanded its dissolution. Supreme Director Gervasio Posadas appointed him as deputy secretary of state, supporting the administration of Nicolas Herrera. After the fall of Supreme Director Alvear, he moved away from politics for a while. In 1816 he re-founded the Lautaro Lodge, now called "Ministerial Lodge", which was
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