Fraga Gomes (Alfredo de)
Funchal-born agronomist of the district (b. 1873) who wrote a monograph on Câmara de Lobos parish and a pamphlet on sugar-cane disease in Madeira.
He was born in Funchal on 21 April 1873 and is agronomist of this district and a member of the Society of Agronomic Sciences of Lisbon (Sociedade de Sciencias Agronomicas de Lisboa). He wrote an interesting monograph on the parish (freguesia) of Câmara de Lobos (‘seals’ den’), published in the Boletim da Direcção Geral da Agricultura, and a pamphlet entitled A doença da canna d'assucar pelo Conyothyrium melasporum na Ilha da Madeira, Lisbon 1900. He has published numerous articles on agricultural subjects in the Funchal newspapers, and is known throughout the district as a most zealous, distinguished and learned official. (1921)
- Alfredo de Fraga Gomes b. 1873