Santos (Vitorino José dos)
Funchal-born civil engineer (1863–1928) who worked in Angola, then held posts in Funchal including director of the industrial school, and wrote reports on Madeiran crafts and a book of verse.
He was born in Funchal on 29 December 1863, the son of Augusto César dos Santos and Dona Isabel de Ornelas Santos. He is a civil engineer, having studied at the former Polytechnic and Army schools in Lisbon. He was director of municipal public works in Luanda and section chief engineer of public works in the province of Angola, and after returning to Funchal he served here as municipal administrator (administrador do concelho, the government's representative) and police commissioner. He is director and teacher of the António Augusto de Aguiar Industrial School and head of the 6th District of the Technical Services of Industry in Funchal. In this last post he wrote several reports published in the Boletim de Trabalho Industrial; some of them, such as those on charitable institutions and trade associations, embroidery, handicrafts, wickerwork and inlaid work (embutidos), are thorough and highly valuable studies. He also published a book of verse entitled Lágrimas, which went through two editions, the first in Funchal in 1916, the second in Coimbra in 1918 (1921). He died on 1 October 1928.
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Abroad
- Angola
Province where he was a public works engineer.
Portuguese overseas colony which served as a place of exile for those condemned for the 1668 and 1834 disturbances in Madeira and by the Alçada of 1823. It was governed by Vasco Guedes, Sebastião Xavier Botelho and D. Lourenço de Almada. It was also the main source of the P.O.J. sugar-cane varieties imported from 1933 onwards.
- Coimbra
Portugal. Where the second edition of his verse was printed.
Portuguese mainland university city where many Madeirans studied law or medicine, and where Padre Luís Gonçalves da Câmara taught and was rector of the Jesuit college. It hosted the 1921 academic table-tennis championship, and its dormancy and rainfall data are compared with Funchal's.
- Funchal
His birthplace and where he held office.
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.
- Lisbon
Portugal. Where he studied.
The Portuguese capital, seat of the Relação court and of the Misericórdia whose privileges and statutes were extended to Funchal. Henrique Franco de Sousa studied at its Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and Luiz José Baiardo moved there in 1821.
- Luanda
Angola. Where he directed municipal public works.
A city in Angola, recorded as a place of exile and as the proposed site of acclimatisation gardens by Welwitsch. Arsenio do Carpo became a wealthy merchant there, and Vitorino José dos Santos directed its municipal public works.
People
People mentioned · 03- Vitorino José dos Santos1863–1928
Civil engineer, director of the Funchal industrial school and author of reports on Madeiran industries.
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His father.
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His mother.