page_title: Ricardo Lancaster-Jones y Verea
section_title: Collaborations
hierarchical_section_title: Ricardo Lancaster-Jones y Verea / Historian / Collaborations
caption_attribution_description: English: Patio area of the Regional Museum of Guadalajara in Guadalajara, Mexico
context_page_description: Ricardo Lancaster-Jones y Verea, MA BE KHS was a Mexican historian, diplomat, scholar, professor, art collector and sugarcane entrepreneur who made significant contributions toward the study of the haciendas of the State of Jalisco in the twentieth century. He spoke Spanish, English, French, Italian and Latin fluently. He authored and published numerous articles for newspapers and specialized magazines in Mexico, South America, Spain, United Kingdom and United States. His enthusiasm for History led him to become a professor of Regional History at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara in 1965. Later on, in 1973, he earned his MA degree in Latin American Studies at the University of New Mexico. He is especially mentioned by Mexican academics Mauricio Beuchot and José María Murià as an early historian of the haciendas in Western Mexico.
context_section_description: During the course of his life, he contributed with such authors as:
   José Cornejo Franco in his book Introducción del agua a Guadalajara (1942), by sharing a document from his private collection that was dated on 4 February 1792; a document that demonstrated the efforts made until such date with the purpose of give water supply to the city of Guadalajara.
   François Chevalier in his book La formation des grands domaines au Mexique, terre et société aux XVIe-XVIIe siècles (1952), sharing information about the rural estates of Jalisco.
   José López-Portillo y Weber (father of Mexico's President José López Portillo) in his book Cristóbal de Oñate: Historia Novelada (1955), by writing an introduction about the López-Portillo family's background, and the author's biography.
   Manuel Romero de Terreros, in his book Antiguas Haciendas de México (1956), shared information and images about the Hacienda de Santa Ana Apacueco.
   Rogers McVaugh in his books Edward Palmer: plant explorer of the American West (1956) and Flora Novo-Galiciana (1983), by providing access to relevant data to the botanical history of Jalisco.
   Gabriel Agraz García de Alba in his book, Jalisco y sus Hombres: compendio de geografía, historia y biografía jaliscienses (1958), for whom he wrote an introduction and shared information about illustrious people from Jalisco.
   Jean Meyer by sharing information and documents about Manuel Lozada and some other information about the Cristero War for Meyer's publications about those subjects (1973, 1984).
   Doris M. Ladd, in her 1974 book, The Mexican nobility at independence, 1780–1826, by sharing information about the Porres-Baranda family and the first Mayorazgo in Guadalajara, Jalisco.
   Isaac Antonio Bonilla by giving him advice on the archives of Guadalajara for his book, Documentos para la historia de California relating to José Mariano Bonilla (1976).
   José Ignacio Dávila Garibi (a nephew of the Mexican prelate, Cardinal José Garibi y Rivera) in his work, Apuntes para la historia de la Iglesia en Guadalajara (1977), contributing with documents and information.
   Ramón María Serrera Contreras during his investigation for his book Guadalajara Ganadera. Estudio Regional Novohispano, 1760–1805 (1977), by sharing information about the rural estates of Jalisco.
   Patricia Arias in her book Guadalajara, la gran ciudad de la pequeña Industria (1985), by giving her an interview and sharing some documents on the history of Guadalajara's growth and development.
   Sir Edgar Vaughan in his book Joseph Lancaster en Caracas (1824–1827) (1989), by sharing family information, as a descendant of the notable English innovator and educationist Joseph Lancaster.
   Alfonso de la Madrid Castro (uncle of Mexico's President Miguel de la Madrid) in his work Apuntes históricos sobre Colima: siglos XVI-XX, by giving him many information about Jalisco's archives that had documents related to the State of Colima, an essay that was published many years after De la Madrid's death by José Miguel Romero de Solís in 1998.
  In 1954, Lancaster-Jones gave more than a dozen photos to Paul Alexander Bartlett, depicting the haciendas Santa Cruz and El Cortijo (Jalisco) from 1880 to 1940, contributing to Bartlett's large-scale study of more than 350 haciendas throughout Mexico that Bartlett conducted between 1943 and 1985. Nowadays, these photographs are kept in the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.
caption: Main patio of the Museo Regional de Guadalajara.
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