Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency |
The Count of Linhares | |
Honorific-Suffix: | CC GCTS CSML FC |
Monarch1: | Maria II of Portugal |
Office1: | Prime Minister of Portugal |
Predecessor1: | Duke of Palmela |
Successor1: | Duke of Saldanha |
Term Start1: | 4 May 1835 |
Term End1: | 27 May 1835 |
Birth Date: | 25 June 1790 |
Birth Place: | Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia |
Death Place: | Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal |
Spouse: | Catarina Juliana de Sousa Holstein |
D. Vitório Maria Francisco de Sousa Coutinho Teixeira de Andrade Barbosa, second Count of Linhares (25 June 1790 – 29 July 1857) was a Portuguese statesman.
Vitório Maria Francisco de Sousa Coutinho Teixeira de Andrade Barbosa took part in the campaigns in Rio da Prata.
In 1817 was nominated Extraordinary Envoie and Minister at Turin.
In 1835 he took part of the ministry, being in charge of the Portuguese Navy.
In May, he became the second Portuguese Prime Minister.
He was part of the Câmara dos Pares (Chamber of Peers) in Saint Benedict's Parliament.