Brito e Nobrega (Ciriaco)
Ciriaco de Brito e Nobrega (b. 1856), veteran Funchal journalist, translator and author, and civil servant of the district finance department.
He was born in Funchal on 16 March 1856 and is one of the longest-serving Madeiran journalists, being at present (1923) an editor of the Diário de Noticias. In 1875 he translated and published the novel Jorge by F. Arnault, and he is the author of A visita de S. S. Magestades os Reis de Portugal ao arquipelago madeirense (Funchal, 1901) and of o Perdão do Marido (Funchal, 1901). In collaboration with Oscar Leal he wrote um Marinheiro do Século XV (Funchal, 1898). Ciriaco de Brito e Nobrega was a knight of the Order of St James and 11th officer of the Finance Department of the District of Funchal (Repartição da Fazenda do Distrito do Funchal).