Person banker landowner contractor
Luís da Rocha Machado
banker · landowner · contractor · merchant
Funchal banker and owner of the Quinta do Monte, where he entertained the Portuguese monarchs in 1901 and housed the exiled imperial family of Empress Zita from 1922. He bought the Selvagens in 1904 and repeatedly contracted, and twice rescinded, Funchal's water and sewerage works.
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- Water supply of the city — Contractor who repeatedly won, and twice rescinded, contracts for Funchal's water and sewerage works (1900, 1908, 1913).
- Nossa Senhora do Monte (parish) — Banker, owner of Quinta do Monte in 1921 and builder of Quinta do Pico da Pedra.
- Eucalyptus — Owner of a quinta in Monte parish where three eucalyptus species grew.
- Savage Islands — Banker who bought the Selvagens in 1904; his son owned them in 1921.
- Franco de Sousa (Francisco) — Person of whom Franco made a bust; Franco also made a funerary statue for the Rocha Machado family tomb.
- Visit of the King and Queen of Portugal — Host of festivities for the monarchs at his quinta in 1901.
- Quinta do Monte — Owner of the Quinta do Monte who built a chapel there to the emperor's memory.
- Aviation — Banker who gave a lunch for the aviators at his quinta at Monte in October 1922.
- Zita (former Empress) — Banker whose quinta at Monte housed the imperial family from February 1922.
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