José Silvestre Ribeiro

• Representation in the Cortes — Elected deputy for Madeira in 1847, 1853 and 1856.
• Levadas — Head of the district's administration from 1846 and deputy for Madeira, who secured an annual subsidy of six contos and greatly advanced the Rabaçal works in 1847–52.
• Cemeteries — Civil governor of Madeira who in 1850 urged the municipal councils to build cemeteries and end burial in churches.
• Historical dates — Civil governor from 1846 who introduced street lighting, the Funchal asylum and a natural history museum.
• Ribeiro Seco (bridge) — Civil governor of Madeira from late 1846 who raised donations and had the bridge built in 1848–49.
• Kalley (Dr Robert Reid) — Civil governor of Funchal from 1846 who reported in 1851 that Kalley's compensation claim should be met.
• 4 September 1862 Mutual Aid Association — Civil governor who in 1850 first proposed a mutual-aid society for Funchal's artisans.
• Chief authorities of the archipelago — Civil governor who continued the list of governors from 1815 to 1847 in his Epocha Administrativa.
• Drumond de Meneses (Sérvulo) — Civil governor of Funchal under whom Drumond de Meneses was secretary-general, replacing him while he sat as deputy in Lisbon.
• St Lawrence (chapels) — Councillor and civil governor who in 1846 ordered an inventory of the fortress chapel's silver and its deposit in the Cofre Central.
• Madeiran history — Governor of Madeira whose model administration is described in Servulo de Meneses's works.
• Monumental Road and Bridge — Civil governor of Madeira who completed the Ribeiro Seco bridge in 1848, raising funds by public subscription.
• Castanheiro (street) — Civil governor of Funchal at whose initiative the street was widened and realigned.
• Conselheiro (street) — Benefactor civil governor of the Madeira district in whose honour the street was named.
• Afforestation — Civil governor of Madeira (1846–1852) under whom maritime-pine planting expanded greatly.
• Santo António (parish) — Civil governor under whose order repairs were made to the church.
• Protestant proselytism — Civil governor of Madeira who intervened in 1850 against Wilkinson's proselytising in Machico.
• Lazaretto — Civil governor of Madeira who established the lazaretto at Gorgulho in 1848 and built houses for it at Gonçalo Aires in 1851.
• Asylums — Head of the district administration who urged the Misericórdia to build an asylum.
• Orphan Girls’ Retreat House — Conselheiro who tried without success to turn the Recolhimento into an independent casa pia.
• Prison — Civil governor of Funchal who in 1847 proposed moving the prison to the São Francisco convent and called the old prison a 'cemetery of living creatures'.
• Infant Asylum — Founder of the Asilo da Mendicidade do Funchal, who saw himself as continuing Mousinho's work.
• Civil governors — Civil governor of the district appointed in 1846.
• Political Parties — Civil governor of the district under whom the Cabralist party kept its vitality.
• Famine in Madeira in 1846 and 1847 — Civil governor of Madeira from October 1846 whose relief measures eased the 1846–47 famine.
• Pine trees — Civil governor of Madeira under whose administration large quantities of pine seed were distributed, launching large-scale maritime pine cultivation.
• Álvares (Father Manuel) — Author quoted calling Alvares one of Portugal's pedagogical glories.
• Bettencourt (Nicolau Anastácio de) — Fellow liberal volunteer at the siege of Porto, later distinguished in public life.
• Prostitution — Madeiran administrator who in 1846 urged regular medical inspection of prostitutes.
• Entailed foundations — Official who stated that two-thirds of the archipelago's land was entailed.
• Governing Junta of Madeira in 1847 — Civil governor of Madeira who refused to join the 1847 revolt, sheltered with British residents and was restored on 26 July 1847.
• Camacha (parish) — Civil governor who built the Poiso shelter house, finished 1852.
• Ponta do Sol (parish) — Civil governor of the district who in 1849 reported the council's quay project to the central government.
• Nery da Silva (Canon Vicente) — Civil governor of Madeira whom Nery attacked violently from the pulpit of the Carmo church in his presence.
• Curral das Freiras (parish) — Civil governor of Funchal who visited in 1846 and found only the priest and regedor literate.
• Nóbrega (Januário Justiniano de) — Said to hold the clean autograph of Nóbrega's historical-statistical work on Madeira.
• Belvederes — Civil governor of Madeira who in 1850 recommended building viewpoints at Macelas, Portela and Eira do Serrado.
• Natural History Museum — Civil governor of Funchal who laid the foundations of a first natural-history museum in the Palácio de São Lourenço, which vanished after his departure.
• Poiso — Civil governor of the Funchal district who ordered the building of the Poiso refuge house for travellers.
• Theatre — Civil governor of Madeira who tried unsuccessfully in 1851–52 to establish a theatre in Funchal.

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Abroad Europe 5

1. 1Funchal
2. 2Porto Santo
3. 3Lisbon
4. 4São Lourenço Palace
5. 5Terceira
6. 6Angra do Heroísmo
7. 7Levada do Rabaçal
8. 8Ponte Monumental
9. 9Praia da Vitória
10. 10Idanha-a-Nova
11. 11Rua do Conselheiro José Silvestre Ribeiro