Person civil servant meteorological observer municipal administrator
Guilherme Teles de Meneses
b. 1855
civil servant · meteorological observer · municipal administrator · writer
Madeiran-born civil servant and retired accountant of the Tribunal de Contas who made meteorological observations at Poiso and Areeiro in the 1890s and 1900s. He briefly administered the Funchal municipality in 1896 and defended Madeira as a health resort.
1Mentioned in
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- Climate — Observer who took meteorological readings at Poiso and Areeiro in the 1890s–1900s.
- João Diniz (springs) — Administrator of the Funchal municipality who declared the springs' water suspect in March 1896.
- Winds — Observer who recorded the winds at Poiso in 1894 and at Areeiro in 1895.
- Hail — Made weather observations at the Pico do Arieiro station, recording -2 °C in November, and saw hail damage crops at Canhas.
- Douglas (Dr) — Person to whose entry the reader is referred in connection with Dr. Douglas's pamphlet, presumably regarding the controversy over health resorts.
2Chronology
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Guilherme Teles de Meneses returned to Madeira.
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Guilherme Teles de Meneses made meteorological observations, including of winds, at Poiso and Pico do Areeiro.
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Guilherme Teles de Meneses, administrator of Funchal, declared the water of the João Dinis springs suspect and forbade the public from drawing it.
3Places mentioned
Abroad