Pestana Júnior (Dr Manuel Gregório)
Original title: Pestana Junior (Dr. Manuel Gregório)
Biography of Manuel Gregório Pestana Júnior (b. 1886), a Porto Santo-born lawyer, deputy for Madeira and later Minister of Finance, author of pamphlets and a historical study on Columbus.
He was born on the island of Porto Santo (‘holy harbour’) on 16 August 1886, the son of Manuel Gregório Pestana and Dona Carolina dos Ramos Pestana. He is a bachelor (bacharel, university graduate) in law of the University of Coimbra (Universidade de Coimbra) and practises as a lawyer in the judicial districts of this island. He has held various public service posts here in Madeira. He represented Madeira in the first Constituent Assembly, which sat from 1911 to 1915, and in the legislative session of 1915 to 1917. He has contributed widely to various newspapers and has published the pamphlets O Problema Sacarino and Reconhecimento do Arquipelago da Madeira (1921).
He was Minister of Finance, and in 1928 he published the interesting and learned historical study entitled D. Cristobal Colom ou Symam Palha.
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Manuel Gregório Pestana Júnior was born on Porto Santo.
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Manuel Gregório Pestana Júnior represented Madeira in the first Constituent Assembly of the Republic.
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Manuel Gregório Pestana Júnior sat as deputy for Madeira in the 1915–17 legislative session.
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Manuel Gregório Pestana Júnior published his study D. Cristobal Colom ou Symam Palha.
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- Porto Santo
Birthplace of Pestana Júnior.
An island of the archipelago, settled alongside Madeira and forming one of the three captaincies. It has always constituted a single parish, dedicated to Nossa Senhora da Piedade, whose church was repeatedly sacked. The Elucidário records the Moorish pirate raid of 1617, its own Misericórdia and a rainwater channel built on this drought-prone island.
- University of Coimbra
Portugal. Where he graduated in law.
The University of Coimbra, in mainland Portugal, was supported by Madeira through tithes and attended by many Madeirans. Several of them graduated there, mostly in law, and others, such as António da Gama and Vitúrio Lopes Rocha, also taught there. Júlio Augusto Henriques held its chair of botany.
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Porto Santo-born lawyer, deputy for Madeira (1911–17) and Minister of Finance, author of works on sugar and on Columbus.
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Mother of Manuel Gregório Pestana Júnior.
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Christopher Columbus, subject of Pestana Júnior's 1928 historical study.
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Father of Manuel Gregório Pestana Júnior.