Gouveia Júnior (Francisco Gomes de)
Original title: Gouveia Júnior ( Francisco Gomes de)
Biography of Francisco Gomes de Gouveia Júnior (1864–1926), retired postal officer, vice-president of Funchal council, head of the Misericórdia's commission and chief editor of the newspaper A Madeira.
He was born in the parish (freguesia) of Santo António (‘St Anthony’) on 12 April 1864, the son of Francisco Gomes de Gouveia and Dona Antónia de Jesus de Gouveia. After studying at the Funchal lyceum (state secondary school), he attended the former postal school in Lisbon and completed its course. He was a retired postal officer and held various public-service posts, among them vice-president of the Funchal Municipal Council (Câmara Municipal do Funchal) and president of the Administrative Committee (Comissão Administrativa) of the Holy House of Mercy (Santa Casa da Misericórdia). He contributed widely to various Funchal newspapers and other publications, and was chief editor of the newspaper A Madeira (‘Madeira’). He died on 11 August 1926.
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- Santo António
Funchal. His birthplace.
Santo António is a parish in the municipality of Funchal, Madeira, where the São João stream rises and the Jesuits had their Pico do Cardo residence. Its church bears a 1783 Latin inscription, and the parish contains the Madalena, São João e Santana and Pópulo chapels; it also gives its name to a hill of about 400 metres near its church.
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People mentioned · 03- Francisco Gomes de Gouveia Júnior1864–1926
Postal officer, municipal vice-president in Funchal and chief editor of A Madeira.
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Mother of the subject.
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Father of the subject.