Article Nº 3564 Donatary, governor or ruler Vol. III · p. 600
Távora (Dom Álvaro José Xavier Botelho de)
Original title: Távora (D. Álvaro José Xavier Botelho de)
Count of São Miguel, governor and captain-general of Madeira 1751–1754, who tried to reform administrative abuses before governing Goiás.
Dom Álvaro Botelho de Távora was Count of São Miguel and was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira on 21 July 1751, taking office on 27 August of the same year. He found many abuses in every branch of public administration, which he sought to correct and reform. He left the governorship on 6 May 1754 to take up the post of governor of the province of Goiás, in Brazil.
He died on 24 April 1789, having governed Madeira for less than three years.
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