Espírito Santo (João Gomes do)
Madeiran artillery officer and journalist from São Gonçalo who commanded the battery at the São Tiago fortress and edited a noted Funchal political newspaper; he died in Porto in 1839.
He was born in the parish (freguesia) of São Gonçalo (‘St Gonçalo’) in this municipality (concelho) and died in the city of Porto on 16 December 1839, at about eighty years of age. He was a distinguished artillery officer and for some years commanded the battery quartered in the fortress of São Tiago. A man of upright character, he made his name as a journalist, having been editor of a political newspaper published in Funchal that enjoyed great renown in its day. (He contributed to many periodicals on the mainland, having withdrawn from journalistic work many years earlier.
- João Gomes do Espírito Santo 1759–1839