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]