Person physician writer foreign resident
Michael C. Grabham
b. 1840
physician · writer · foreign resident
English physician, born in 1840, who lived for many years in Funchal and wrote The Climate and Resources of Madeira (1870) and Materia Atlantica (1901). He built the Camacha clock tower in 1896 and gave the present clock of Funchal Cathedral.
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- Clocks — Doctor resident in Madeira who gave the Camacha clock and the present Funchal Cathedral clock.
- Camacha (parish) — English doctor who built the clock tower on the Camacha Achada in 1896.
2Chronology
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Michael Grabham was born.
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Michael Grabham published The Climate and Resources of Madeira in London.
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Grabham's tower clock at Camacha was set going.
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Michael Grabham published Materia Atlantica, a guide for visitors at the time of the royal visit.
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Dr Michael C. Grabham offered a new Cathedral clock to the Funchal municipal council.
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