Lampreia (João de Oliveira Sá Camelo)
Biography of João de Oliveira Sá Camelo Lampreia (c.1864–1943), a Funchal-born Portuguese diplomat who served in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Rome, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro, becoming Portugal's minister plenipotentiary in Brazil. After the fall of the monarchy he left diplomacy and became a merchant in Rio de Janeiro.
He was born in Funchal around 1864, the son of the distinguished Madeiran Francisco Joaquim de Sá Camelo Lampreia (see that entry). He attended the former Lisbon Commercial Institute (Instituto Comercial de Lisboa) and pursued a diplomatic career, being appointed attaché to the legations in Stockholm and Copenhagen in 1883. In 1890 he left for Rome as secretary of embassy and remained there for some years, serving several times as chargé d’affaires. After serving at the legation in Madrid, he moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1896 as first secretary. By decree of 8 September 1900 he was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary in Brazil, a post he held for some years. There he rendered notable services to his country, while at the same time winning the warmest regard not only of the important Portuguese community but also of the most eminent figures of the Brazilian Republic. With the establishment of the new political regime, he abandoned his diplomatic career and settled in the city of Rio de Janeiro, devoting himself to the labours of an active commercial life. He died in the city of Rio de Janeiro on 11 July 1943.
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João de Oliveira Sá Camelo Lampreia was born in Funchal.
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João de Oliveira Sá Camelo Lampreia was appointed attaché to the legations in Stockholm and Copenhagen.
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João de Oliveira Sá Camelo Lampreia went to Rome as embassy secretary.
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João de Oliveira Sá Camelo Lampreia moved to Rio de Janeiro as first secretary.
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João de Oliveira Sá Camelo Lampreia was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary in Brazil.
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João de Oliveira Sá Camelo Lampreia died in Rio de Janeiro.
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Abroad
- Brazil
Country to which he was accredited as minister plenipotentiary.
Brazil is recorded in the Elucidário as a chief destination of Madeiran emigrants, including several clergy and writers. It was also a market for Madeira wine and brandy and a maker of wickerwork from Madeiran osiers. It was linked to Madeira by the 1874 telegraph cable and is the native country of the araçá.
- Copenhagen
Denmark. Seat of a legation to which he was attached in 1883.
Copenhagen was the home city of the botanist Martin Vahl, whose work Madeiras Vegetation was published there in 1904. João de Oliveira Sá Camelo Lampreia was attached to the legation there in 1883.
- Funchal
Birthplace of the diplomat.
The capital of the archipelago and seat of the principal captaincy, where settlement began; it was made a vila c.1451–52. Its bay, the widest in the archipelago, lies between Ponta do Garajau and Ponta da Cruz and offers sheltered anchorage, though its harbour had never been studied oceanographically. The Elucidário discusses it as a health resort with climate data and records the January 1906 disturbances, the Danish prince's visit in May 1846 and recent volcanic cones in the area.
- Madrid
Spain. He served at the Portuguese legation there.
The Spanish capital, where the Conde da Ega served as Portuguese ambassador and other Madeirans served at the Portuguese legation. Franco de Sousa and Miguéis went there in 1912 on the Valmor grant, and Dr Jacinto António de Sousa visited it for its scientific establishments.
- Rio de Janeiro
Brazil. Where he was first secretary and minister, later a merchant, and where he died.
Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, appears in the Elucidário as the seat of the Portuguese court and as a city where many Madeirans lived, studied, taught, published and died. Among them were Paulo Perestrelo da Câmara, João de Oliveira Sá Camelo Lampreia and João da Silveira Caldeira, who headed the Mint there.
- Rome
Italy. Where he served as embassy secretary from 1890.
Rome, seat of the Holy See, appears in the Elucidário chiefly through Madeirans and others connected with it. Padre Manuel Constantino taught, published and died there, and Dr Patrício Moniz took a doctorate in theology and was ordained there. Padre Luiz Gonçalves da Câmara was superior of the Jesuit professed house there, and Simão Gonçalves da Câmara's gift was presented to the pope there; other entries record an embassy post, the Vatican Council and beatification processes.
- Stockholm
Sweden. Seat of a legation to which he was attached in 1883.
Estocolmo (Stockholm) was the seat of a legation to which João de Oliveira Sá Camelo Lampreia was attached in 1883. It was also a diplomatic posting of the 1st Viscount of Tôrre Bela.
People
People mentioned · 02- João de Oliveira Sá Camelo Lampreiac. 1864–1943
Funchal-born Portuguese diplomat who was minister plenipotentiary in Brazil from 1900 and later a merchant in Rio de Janeiro, where he died in 1943.
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Distinguished Madeiran and father of the diplomat João de Oliveira Sá Camelo Lampreia; he has his own entry in the Elucidário.