Manuel Gregório Pestana Júnior
b. 1886
lawyer · politician · journalist · historian
Manuel Gregório Pestana Júnior (b. 1886) was a Porto Santo-born lawyer, deputy for Madeira (1911–17) and later Minister of Finance. As administrator of the Funchal concelho he urged mutinous troops to obey their officers on 7 October 1910. He wrote pamphlets on the sugar question, 'O Reconhecimento do Arquipelago da Madeira' (1920) proposing a new discovery date, and a study on Columbus.
1Mentioned in
- Discovery of the archipelago — Author of 'O Reconhecimento do Arquipelago da Madeira' (1920).
- Cadamosto (Luiz) — Author of a study on the reconnaissance of the Madeira archipelago placing Cadamosto's voyages in 1449 and 1450.
- Madeiran history — Author of O Reconhecimento do Arquipelago da Madeira (1920).
- Republic (proclamation of the) — Administrator of the Funchal concelho who urged the mutinous troops to obey their officers on 7 October 1910.
- Ministers of State — Madeiran who served as a minister of state.
- Columbus (Christopher) — Author of Cristóbal Colom ou Simão Palha.
- Quincentenary of the discovery of Madeira — Lawyer and journalist whose 1920 pamphlet 'O Reconhecimento da Madeira' proposed a new date for the discovery.
- Hinton (question) — Author of the pamphlet 'O problema sacarino da Madeira', published in Funchal.
- Aviation — Spoke at the children's festival in the Teatro-Circo in June 1922.
- Leite Monteiro (park) — President of the municipal administrative commission when the park's name was restored in 1913.
2Chronology
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Pestana Júnior dates Cadamosto's voyages to 1449 and 1450.
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Manuel Gregório Pestana Júnior was born on Porto Santo.
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Manuel Gregório Pestana Júnior represented Madeira in the first Constituent Assembly of the Republic.
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Manuel Gregório Pestana Júnior sat as deputy for Madeira in the 1915–17 legislative session.
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Pestana Júnior published 'O Reconhecimento da Madeira', proposing a new date for the island's discovery.
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Books arguing Columbus's Portuguese nationality were published.
3Places mentioned
Abroad