Honorific-Prefix: | Count |
Victor Hugo de Azevedo Coutinho | |
Office: | Prime Minister of Portugal |
Term Start: | 12 December 1914 |
Term End: | 25 January 1915 |
President: | Manuel de Arriaga |
Predecessor: | Bernardino Machado |
Successor: | Joaquim Pimenta de Castro |
Birth Date: | 12 November 1871 |
Birth Place: | Portuguese Macau |
Death Place: | Lisbon, Portugal |
Party: | Democratic Party |
Alma Mater: | University of Coimbra |
Occupation: | Naval officer (Captain) |
Allegiance: | Portugal |
Serviceyears: | 1888—1933 |
Victor Hugo de Azevedo Coutinho, 18th Count of Azevedo GCC, GCA (12 November 1871–27 June 1955), was a Portuguese naval officer, politician and professor, at the University of Coimbra and later the Escola Naval (Naval School).[1] He was a member of the Portuguese Democratic Party and served as the President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) for the 7th government of the First Portuguese Republic (having led the country between 12 December 1914 and 25 January 1915). His government's composition was essentially made up of second-line political figures, and his government was jokingly referred to as "Os miseráveis de Victor Hugo" ("The miserables of Victor Hugo"), a play on the French author Victor Hugo's book Les Misérables.[2] [3]