Matilde Pacheco


Matilde Irene Pacheco Stewart was the First Lady of Uruguay at the beginning of the 20th century.

Biography

Daughter of Manuel Pacheco y Obes, a brother of Melchor Pacheco y Obes; her mother, Anne Stewart Agell, was a sister of Duncan Stewart.
Matilde Pacheco married Ruperto Michaelsson Batlle 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 ; Rafael ; Amalia Ana ; Ana Amalia ; and Lorenzo.