João da Câmara Leme Homem de Vasconcelos

1829–1902

physician · civil governor · journalist · industrialist

First Count of Canavial, a Funchal physician, medical-school director, civil governor and journalist, who founded the Companhia Fabril de Açúcar Madeirense. He published widely and engaged in a published polemic with Dr Vicente Cândido Machado in 1884; a bust was erected to him in Funchal in 1922.

3 · Places mentioned

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Abroad Europe 2

1. 1Funchal
2. 2Lisbon
3. 3Funchal Cathedral (the Sé)
4. 4Campo da Barca
5. 5Montpellier
6. 6Avenida Doutor Manuel de Arriaga
7. 7Disinfection Station