Article Nº 1197 Foreign visitor or author on Madeira Vol. I · p. 695
Dias Ferreira (José)
José Dias Ferreira (1837–1907), Portuguese jurist and statesman, stayed several months in Funchal from March 1873 at the Quinta Bianchi.
This distinguished politician and jurist arrived in Funchal on 7 March 1873 and stayed there for some months. He lived at the Quinta Bianchi, a quinta (country estate) in the locality (sítio) of Nazaré (‘Nazareth’), in São Martinho. The property today belongs to the heirs of Manuel José de Favila Vieira; at that time it belonged to the late merchant Augusto César de Bianchi, later Viscount of Bianchi.
Councillor (conselheiro, honorary title of the royal council) José Dias Ferreira was born on 30 November 1837 and died in Vidago on 9 September 1907.
People mentioned
- José Dias Ferreira 1837–1907
- Augusto César de Bianchi
- Manuel José Vieira 1836–1912
Places mentioned