Vasco Guedes de Carvalho e Meneses explained

Vasco Guedes de Carvalho e Meneses
Birth Date:5 April 1822
Birth Place:Massarelos near Porto
Death Date:1 January 1905
Death Place:Amarante
Nationality:Portuguese
Office:Colonial governor of Mozambique
Term Start:24 April 1854
Term End:26 September 1857
Predecessor:Joaquim Pinto de Magalhães
Successor:João Tavares de Almeida
Office2:Colonial governor of Cape Verde
Term Start2:22 December 1876
Term End2:7 May 1878
Predecessor2:Guilherme Quintino Lopes de Macedo
Successor2:António de Nascimento Pereira de Sampaio
Office3:Governor-general of Angola
Term Start3:7 May 1878
Term End3:July 1880
Predecessor3:Caetano Alexandre de Almeida e Albuquerque
Successor3:António Eleutério Dantas
Office4:Colonial governor of Portuguese India
Term Start4:16 June 1889
Term End4:10 March 1891
Predecessor4:Governing Council
Successor4:Francisco Maria da Cunha

Vasco Guedes de Carvalho e Meneses (5 April 1822 – 1 January 1905) was a Portuguese colonial administrator and a military officer. He was a younger brother of José Guedes de Carvalho e Meneses who was governor of Mozambique and Cape Verde.[1]

He was governor general of Mozambique from 24 April 1854 until 26 September 1857.[2] He was governor general of Cape Verde from 22 December 1876[3] until 7 May 1878, when he became governor of Angola,[1] an office he fulfilled until July 1880.[4] He was governor of Portuguese India from 16 June 1889 until 10 March 1891.[5]

He was Commander of the Order of Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Vila Viçosa.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Resenha das Familias Titulares e Grandes de Portugal - Tomo I. 486-489. Albano da Silveira Pinto. 1883.
  2. Web site: Mozambique. worldstatesmen.org.
  3. Web site: Cape Verde. worldstatesmen.org.
  4. Web site: Angola. worldstatesmen.org.
  5. Web site: Goa. worldstatesmen.org.