Person physician writer politician
António Francisco da Câmara Leme Homem de Vasconcelos
1816–1858
physician · writer · politician · noble
Funchal physician, later Viscount and Count of Canavial, professor (1861–83) and director (1866–83) of the Funchal Medical-Surgical School. He founded the Companhia Fabril de Açucar Madeirense and a women's education association, and wrote on the agricultural crisis.
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- Levadas — Author of an 1879 study of the agricultural crisis in Funchal district, cited on levadas.
- Bibliography — Physician, later Count of Canavial, involved in controversies over the agricultural crisis and the sugar company.
- Speeches — Author of speeches of 1867–1876, including one opening the Funchal Medical-Surgical School.
- Association for the Protection and Education of the Women of Funchal — Founder of the association and author of its statutes, later Count of Canavial, praised by the central government in 1876.
- Madeiran Sugar Manufacturing Company — Madeiran doctor, later Conde de Canavial, who founded the Companhia Fabril de Açucar Madeirense and contracted its machinery abroad.
- Praça da Rainha (square) — Funchal physician granted the square in 1877 as a nursery for white mulberry trees and for unsuccessful silkworm-rearing trials.
- Medical-Surgical School — Later Viscount and Count of Canavial; professor 1861–83 and director 1866–83.
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