Albuquerque (Manuel Saldanha da Gama)
Manuel Saldanha da Gama Albuquerque was governor and captain-general of Madeira from 1754 to 1757, later Count of Ega and viceroy of India.
He was appointed governor and captain-general (capitão-general, military governor of Madeira) of Madeira on 6 March 1754 and took office on 16 May of the same year. Summoned to Lisbon in February 1757 to hold an important office, he was made Count of Ega and then appointed viceroy of India. Accused of abuses in the exercise of that office, he was imprisoned, and only after his death did a court sentence rehabilitate his memory. He died on 6 December 1771. When he left this island for Lisbon he was replaced in the government of Madeira by the diocesan bishop, Dom Gaspar Afonso da Costa Brandão, in accordance with the laws then in force.
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- India
Where he later served as viceroy.
India is recorded as the place where several Madeirans served, including Lopo de Abreu, Pedro da Silva and the viceroy João Saldanha da Gama. The fame of Madeiran levada builders reached it. It is the native region of plants grown on Madeira, among them the mango, Hedychium gardnerianum, balsam and most bamboos.
- Lisbon
Portugal. Where he was recalled in 1757.
The Portuguese capital, seat of the Relação court and of the Misericórdia whose privileges and statutes were extended to Funchal. Henrique Franco de Sousa studied at its Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and Luiz José Baiardo moved there in 1821.
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Governor and captain-general of Madeira (1754–57), later Count of Ega and viceroy of India, imprisoned for alleged abuses and rehabilitated posthumously.
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Bishop of Funchal who took over the government of Madeira when Albuquerque was recalled to Lisbon in 1757.