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''' Narciso José Anastasio Clavería y Zaldúa''' ([[Catalan language|Catalan]]: ''Narcís Josep Anastasi Claveria i Zaldua''; 2 May 1795<ref name="baptism"/> – 20 June 1851) was a Spanish army officer who served as the [[Governor-General of the Philippines]] from July 16 1844 to December 26 1849.
Clavería is widely recognized as a reformist and modernizing administrator. He traveled through many provinces trying to learn the needs of Filipinos. He encouraged agriculture, improved the streets and suburbs of [[Manila]], and succeeded in helping the country.<ref name="Jernegan">Jernegan, Prescott Ford (1905) [https://books.google.com/books?id=rldFAAAAIAAJ "A short history of the Philippines: for use in Philippine schools"]. pp. 232-234. D. Appleton and Company, New York.</ref> He was given the title [[Count of Manila]].<ref name="Repertorio"/><ref>[https://www.boe.es/datos/pdfs/BOE//1848/4980/A00002-00002.pdf Real decreto concediendo el título de Castilla con la denominación de conde de Manila, vizconde de Clavería, para sí, sus hijos y sucesores legítimos á D. Narciso Clavería, gobernador y Capitán general de las islas Filipinas]. [[Gaceta de Madrid]]. no. 4980, 03/05/1848, pg. 2. (BOE-A-1848-2189)</ref> The towns of [[Claveria, Misamis Oriental|Claveria]] in [[Misamis Oriental]] [[Provinces of the Philippines|province]], [[Claveria, Masbate|Claveria]] in [[Masbate]] province, and [[Claveria, Cagayan|Claveria]] in [[Cagayan]] province were named in his honor.<ref name="Lakay">(2009-03-28). [http://www.lakay-lakay.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=55 "Brief History of Claveria"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713182245/http://www.lakay-lakay.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=55 |date=2011-07-13 }}. Lakay-Lakay, Official Claveria Website. Retrieved on 2011-06-03.</ref>
His grandson, [[Narciso Clavería y de Palacios, 3rd Count of Manila]], was an architect who designed the [[Toledo Railway Station]].
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