Person physician president of the Funchal municipal council politician
Fernando Tolentino da Costa
b. 1873
physician · president of the Funchal municipal council · politician
Madeiran physician born in Porto Moniz who became president of the Funchal municipal council, where he had the old gaol on the Largo da Sé demolished and the São Lázaro prison built. He also led the Junta Geral and promoted the publication of the Flora do Archipelago da Madeira in 1914.
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- Official time — President of the Funchal council who declared the one-hour clock advance useless for Madeira in 1917.
- Prison — Funchal councillor and later council president chiefly responsible for building the São Lázaro prison and demolishing the old one.
- Political Parties — Member of the Madeiran Franquist group.
- Political Parties — President of the Reconstituição Nacional municipal committee of Funchal in 1920.
- Tenerife visitors — Gave a champagne toast to the Tenerife visitors at the Junta Geral palace in 1922.
- Quincentenary of the discovery of Madeira — Member of the Executive Committee.
- St Lazarus’s Hospital — Proposed the closure of the hospital to the Câmara in 1912.
2Chronology
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Fernando Tolentino da Costa was born in Porto Moniz.
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Fernando Tolentino da Costa completed his medical course at the Funchal Medical-Surgical School.
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Carlos Azevedo de Meneses's Flora do Archipelago da Madeira was published in Funchal by the Junta Agrícola, on the proposal of Fernando Tolentino da Costa.
3Places mentioned
Abroad