Luiz da Silva Mousinho de Albuquerque
d. 1846
governor of Madeira · military officer · politician · writer
Man of letters, scientist and liberal politician who was the first governor (prefect) of Madeira under the constitutional regime (1834–35), founding the orphan asylum, beginning the Rabaçal levada works and conceiving the monumental bridge. He wrote on Madeiran geology, was elected deputy for Madeira, and died in 1846 of a wound received at Torres Vedras.
1Mentioned in
- Representation in the Cortes — Elected for Madeira in 1835 and later legislatures.
- Misericórdias — Prefect of the province who in 1834 placed the Misericórdia under an administrative commission.
- Misericórdias — Governor of Madeira who approved the Misericórdia's new regulation on 8 November 1834.
- Levadas — Governor and engineer who began the Rabaçal works in 1835 and directed the first studies on site.
- Military commanders — First military commander of Madeira after the separation of civil and military offices in 1834.
- Calcareous bodies of Piedade — Took the Piedade bodies to be petrified remains of an ancient forest, the view the Elucidário accepts.
- Bravos do Mindelo (the Heroes of Mindelo) — Liberal general who arrived at Porto Santo in 1832.
- Monumental Road and Bridge — First constitutional governor of Madeira, who conceived the monumental bridge project in 1835 and began its pillars.
- Judicial administration — Governor and captain-general who on 13 October 1834 appointed a new juiz de fora and corregedor.
- Funchal Commercial Association — Governor of Madeira who appointed the founding commission of the association on 7 July 1835.
- Occupation of Porto Santo by the Constitutional troops — Future Liberal prefect who landed on Porto Santo in 1832 and maintained order during the occupation.
- Infant Asylum — First constitutional governor of Madeira (1834–35), who founded Funchal's orphan asylum.
- Civil governors — First chief authority of the district under constitutional government, appointed in 1834.
- Auxiliary Artillery — Issued the 1834 regulation organising the auxiliary artillery corps of Madeira.
- Costa do Sul (southern coast) — Author quoted for his description of the bearings and hazards of Madeira's south coast.
- Atouguia (Viscount of) — Commander of the unsuccessful 1832 liberal expedition against Madeira.
- Costa do Norte — Portuguese author whose description of the course of Madeira's northern shoreline is quoted in this entry.
- Prostitution — Official who in 1834 recommended regular sanitary inspection of prostitutes in Madeira.
- Funchal – I. Origin of the name — First prefect of the Funchal district, appointed in 1834.
- Ponta de São Lourenço — Author quoted for a geological description of the headland.
- Proclamations of constitutional government — Prefect who arrived from Lisbon on 6 August 1834 to govern the province.
- Military Organisation — Prefect and military governor of Madeira from 6 August 1834, remaining military governor only until 8 November 1835.
- Stuebel (Dr Alphons) — Cited as one of the authors of known opinions on Madeira's geology.
- Primary Schools — President of the society that founded the Escola da Infância Desvalida around 1834.
2Chronology
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A liberal expedition sent by D. Pedro IV under Mousinho de Albuquerque to take Madeira from the Miguelists failed to attack and turned to Porto Santo instead.
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A constitutional force of 60 artillerymen from Terceira occupied Porto Santo and proclaimed D. Maria II, joined on 7 April by Admiral Sartorius and Mousinho de Albuquerque; it left for the Azores with 104 Madeiran volunteers in May.
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Madeira became an administrative district like those of the mainland, no longer an overseas province, with civil and military government separated and Mousinho de Albuquerque as first prefect.
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Luiz da Silva Mousinho de Albuquerque was appointed prefect of Madeira by decree.
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Mousinho de Albuquerque arrived and took office as prefect and military governor of Madeira on 6 August 1834, governing until September 1835.
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Governor Mousinho de Albuquerque appointed a new juiz de fora and corregedor in Madeira.
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Prefect Mousinho de Albuquerque placed the Santa Casa da Misericórdia under a municipal administrative commission and approved a new regulation for it.
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Mousinho de Albuquerque gave the Auxiliary Artillery corps a regulation of fifteen companies.
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Mousinho de Albuquerque conceived the monumental bridge and road as a memorial to D. Pedro IV.
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The prefect dissolved the liquidating commission of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia.
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Governor Mousinho de Albuquerque appointed a commission, including João Shortridge, to organise the Associação Comercial of Funchal.
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Mousinho de Albuquerque left the civil government of Madeira, remaining only military governor until 8 November 1835.
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Luiz da Silva Mousinho de Albuquerque left Madeira for Lisbon to take up a ministerial post.
3Places mentioned
Abroad