Article Nº 3497 Association, club or society Vol. III · p. 560
Society for the Support of Primary Education
Original title: Sociedade Auxiliadora da Instrução Primaria
Association founded in Funchal in 1858 to promote and support primary education in the district, with the Infante D. Luís as its protector.
On 19 October 1858 a select assembly met in the São Lourenço Palace (‘St Lawrence’) to lay the foundations of an association whose special purpose was to promote and support primary education in this district, and several speakers addressed it on that occasion. The meeting was attended by the Infante Dom Luís, later King of Portugal, who there declared himself protector of the new association.
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