José Dias Ferreira

José Dias Ferreira
42nd Prime Minister of Portugal
In office
18 January 1892 – 22 February 1893
Monarch Carlos I
Preceded by João Crisóstomo de Abreu e Sousa
Succeeded by Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro
Personal details
Born 30 November 1837
Arganil, Kingdom of Portugal
Died 8 September 1909 (aged 71)
Vidago, Kingdom of Portugal
Political party Independent

José Dias Ferreira, GCTE (30 November 1837 in Arganil, Pombeiro da Beira – 8 September 1909 in Vidago) was a Portuguese lawyer, politician and jurist, son of António Ferreira Dias (São Martinho, Urgueira, c. 1815 – Aldeia Nova, 27 August 1880) and wife Bernarda Pereira de Vasconcelos (c. 1810 – ?).

Career

He served as a Minister, 18th (4 January 1868), 27th (26 May 1870) and 48th (27 May 1892) Minister for Treasury Affairs and Prime Minister of Portugal from 1892 to 1893 and was the country's most influential civil law scholar during the late 19th century.[1] He was also the 250th Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword.

Marriage and issue

He married Amélia Ferreira Pinto Basto (Oliveira do Bairro, Oiã, Quinta do Silveiro, 16 June 1838 – Lisbon, 1873), and had issue now almost extinct.

He also had by Eugénia Henriqueta Alves Valdez, 1st Countess of Penalva de Alva (13 January 1840 – 10 December 1920), widow of José Rodrigues Penalva, 1st Viscount of Penalva de Alva (Covilhã, 8 February 1811 – Lisbon, 6 August 1881), Nobleman of the Royal Household, by whom she had issue, one son José Eugénio Dias Ferreira (Lisbon, 13 November 1882 – Lisbon, 17 January 1953), a lawyer, married to Júlia ..., by whom he had Carlos Eugénio Dias Ferreira (Lisbon, 18 May 1908 – ?), also a lawyer, by whose marriage to Julieta Ferreira Teixeira Carvalho was the father, among others, of Manuela Ferreira Leite[2][3][4] and José Eugénio Dias Ferreira.

References

  1. ↑ Various, Grande Enciclopédia Portuguesa e Brasileira, Editorial Enciclopédia, Lisboa, Vol. 8, p. 948
  2. ↑ Anuário da Nobreza de Portugal, III, 1985, Tomo II, p. 716
  3. ↑ Raízes & Memórias, Nr. 23
  4. ↑ José Dias Ferreira, Geneallnet
Preceded by
João Crisóstomo de Abreu e Sousa		 Prime Minister of Portugal
(President of the Council of Ministers)
1892–1893 		Succeeded by
Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro