Escobar (del Carro), Juan
a Spanish theologian, was born at Puente de Cantos (Andalusia); taught law with success at the College of Santa Maria and at the University of Seville; became afterwards inquisitor at Murcia and at Cordova, and died at Madrid after 1642, leaving, De Puritate Sancti Officii Inquisitionis, etc. (Lyons, 1637): — De Utroqse Foro (Cordova, 1642): — De Confessariis, etc. (ibid. eod.): — De Horis Canonicis (ibid. eod.): — Antilogia, etc. (ibid. eod.). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.