Article Nº 1231 Clergy and religious Vol. I · p. 728
D'Orsey (Alexander J. D.)
Alexander J. D. D'Orsey was an Anglican chaplain and head of a school in Funchal. He wrote widely used Portuguese–English language books, one of them in collaboration with the rector of the Funchal lyceum.
He was an Anglican chaplain and head of a school in Funchal. Works: Colloquial Portuguese, or the Words and Phrases of every day, which ran to six editions, the first in 1854 and the last in 1891, and A Pratical Grammar of Portuguese and English, which ran to three editions. Marceliano Ribeiro de Mendonça, rector of the Funchal lyceum (state secondary school), collaborated on the latter work.
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