Carvalho (João da Silva)
Funchal primary teacher (1821–1903) who taught for nearly 60 years, founded a school in 1845 and served on the municipal council.
He was born in Funchal on 16 October 1821 and for nearly 60 years taught primary school in this city with great proficiency. On 2 October 1845 he founded his first school in partnership with Augusto Correia de Sampaio, also now deceased. In recognition of his services, the Municipal Council granted him, in the last years of his life, an annual pension of 240,000 réis (old Portuguese money of account; 1$000 = 1,000 réis, 1:000$000 = one conto = 1,000,000 réis). He contributed to O Estudo, A Ordem and other periodicals, was a member of the Municipal Council and of the District Commission (Comissão Distrital), and in 1867 published, with his own preface, Januário Justiniano de Nóbrega’s work on the visit of the Empress of Brazil to Madeira. He died in Funchal on 9 July 1903.
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João da Silva Carvalho was born in Funchal.
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João da Silva Carvalho founded his first school in Funchal.
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Januário Justiniano de Nóbrega's account of the visit of the Empress of Brazil and of the hospice was published posthumously in Funchal, edited by João da Silva Carvalho.
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João da Silva Carvalho died in Funchal.
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- Funchal
Birthplace, workplace and place of death of the teacher.
The capital of the archipelago and seat of the principal captaincy, where settlement began; it was made a vila c.1451–52. Its bay, the widest in the archipelago, lies between Ponta do Garajau and Ponta da Cruz and offers sheltered anchorage, though its harbour had never been studied oceanographically. The Elucidário discusses it as a health resort with climate data and records the January 1906 disturbances, the Danish prince's visit in May 1846 and recent volcanic cones in the area.
People
People mentioned · 04- João da Silva Carvalho1821–1903
Funchal primary teacher for almost 60 years, councillor and editor of Nóbrega's work on the Empress of Brazil's visit.
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Partner of Carvalho in founding his first school in 1845.
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Empress whose visit to Madeira was the subject of Nóbrega's work.
- Januário Justiniano de Nóbrega1824–1866
Author of the work on the Empress of Brazil's visit published by Carvalho in 1867.