Freitas Vale (Henrique Félix)
Original title: Freitas Vale (Henrique Felix)
Biography of Henrique Félix Freitas Vale (b. c.1840), Funchal lawyer, tax receiver and journalist who wrote pamphlets on the agricultural crisis and the 1887–88 Madeira revolt.
He belongs to an old Madeiran family and was born in this city around 1840. He was a licensed advocate (advogado provisionista, practising by licence without a law degree) and municipal receiver (recebedor do concelho) of Funchal, and carried out various public-service commissions. He contributed widely to several newspapers and was chief editor of A Lei and the Diário do Funchal (‘Funchal Daily’). He published the pamphlets A Crise Agrícola da Madeira, suas causas e efeitos, 1887, and A Revolta da Madeira e a comissão de inquérito, 1888. He settled on the mainland many years ago, where he has held various administrative posts. (1921).
- Henrique Félix Freitas Vale b. c. 1840