Robert Torrens Robert Torrens Sir Robert Richard Torrens, (1 July 1814 – 31 August 1884) was an Irish-born parliamentarian, writer, and reformist. He was prominent in the early years of the Colony of South Australia, initially as a civil servant and then as a political officeholder. He was Colonial Treasurer from 1852 to 1857 and then Premier of South Australia for a single month in September 1857. Torrens is chiefly remembered as the originator of the Torrens title, a system of land registration. He secured its implementation in South Australia in 1858, and subsequently advocated for its adoption in other jurisdictions. He
José Anastasio Torrens Córdova. As a result of his secondary participation in a plot against the Colombian President, and his systematic involvement in local politics, Colombian Foreign Affairs Minister cancelled his diplomatic passport and asked him to leave the country. Back in Mexico, Torrens was ignored for other public missions until he was appointed brigadier general in Michoacán, on 4 February 1854, and died three years later in Mexico City. José Anastasio Torrens José Anastasio Torrens (1790 – 1857) was a Mexican colonel in the army of José María Morelos who served as chargé d'affaires of Mexico to the United States from 3