Vila Mendo (Viscount of)
Original title: Vila Mendo (Visconde de)
António de Gouveia Osório, Viscount of Vila Mendo, twice civil governor of Funchal (1881, 1882) and elected peer representing Madeira.
By decree of 12 April 1881 the Viscount of Vila Mendo was appointed civil governor of Funchal, taking up the post on 23 May of the same year. He served only a few months.
He was civil governor of this district a second time, appointed by decree of 10 November 1882 and taking office on the 16th of that month and year.
As an elective peer (par electivo), he represented Madeira in the Cortes (Portuguese parliament) in the legislative sessions of 1884 to 1887 and 1890 to 1892.
António de Gouveia Osório was granted the title of Viscount of Vila Mendo, a parish (freguesia) in the district of Viseu where he had a manor house and an entailed estate (morgadio) inherited from his forebears, and where he was born in 1826. He was a bachelor (bacharel, university graduate) in law and a member of the Court of Audit (Tribunal de Contas).
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Time
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António de Gouveia Osório, later Visconde de Vila Mendo, was born at Vila Mendo.
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The Viscount of Vila Mendo, António de Gouveia Osório, was appointed civil governor of Funchal on 12 April and took office on 23 May.
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The Viscount of Vila Mendo was appointed civil governor of Funchal a second time and took office on 16 November.
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The Visconde de Gonçalves de Freitas (Vila Mendo) represented Madeira in parliament in the legislatures of 1884 and 1887.
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The Visconde de Vila Mendo again represented Madeira as elected peer.
Place
Places mentioned · 02
Abroad
- Funchal
District he governed as civil governor.
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.
- Vila Mendo
Portugal. Parish in Viseu district, his birthplace and seat of his family estate, giving his title.
Parish in Viseu district, his birthplace and seat of his family estate, giving his title.
People
People mentioned · 01- António de Gouveia Osóriob. 1826
Viscount of Vila Mendo, law graduate and member of the Court of Accounts, twice civil governor of Funchal (1881 and 1882) and elected peer for Madeira.