Soares (Feliciano)
Feliciano Soares, born in Aveiro in 1886, was a customs officer in Funchal who founded a secondary and commercial school and a scholarship fund for poor students, and wrote several books.
He was born in Aveiro on 14 October 1886 and is a junior customs officer (aspirante da alfândega) at the Funchal customs house. In this city he founded the Institute of Secondary and Commercial Education (Instituto de Ensino Secundário e Comercial) and the Antónia Georgina Scholarship Fund (Bolsa de Estudos Antónia Georgina), the latter intended to support poor students attending the country’s state schools. Works: Crucificadas, Funchal, 1915, 350 pp., and O que eu vi e pensei, Funchal, 1923, 267 pp. In collaboration with Emanuel Vitorino Ribeiro he published a pamphlet entitled Terra! Terra!, on the discovery of Madeira (1921).