Abel Fontoura da Costa

Abel Fontoura da Costa
Fontoura da Costa, c. 1923.

Colonial governor of Cape Verde
In office 1915–1918
Preceded by	Joaquím Pedro Vieira Júdice Bicker
Succeeded by	Teófilo Duarte

Personal details
Born	9 December 1869 Alpiarça center
Died	7 December 1940 Lisbon
Nationality	Portuguese

'Abel Fontoura da Costa. (9 December 1869 – 7 December 1940) was a Portuguese colonial administrator, a military personnel and a politician.

Biography

He attended at the Royal Military College where he was enlisted as a marine in 1887 and became ranked as a sea and military captain. In 1901, he took part in marking the boundary between (Portuguese) Angola and the (Belgian) Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).^[1] He was responsible as minister of agriculture from 9 January to 18 August 1923 and a marine general in 1923. He held different positions at the Marine High School Command in 1923. He was also director at the Navy School of Physical Education of the Army in 1932 and DIrector of the Navy School from 1936 to 1959. He was governor of Cape Verde between 1915 and 1918.^[2]^[3]^[4]

He did not took academic curriculum, he lectured for a few years before he became a rector at the Lisbon Central Lyceum from 1907 to 1910. He was member of the Portuguese Academy of Science ahd History in 1935 and commissioner of the Naval Museum in 1936 and president of the Lisbon(ese) Football Association in 1910.

On March 11, 1919, he was made Commander of the Military Order of Avis, together with another former governor of Cape Verde Bernardo António da Costa de Macedo became Grand Officer, later he became a Grand Officer of the same order on October 19, 1920.^[5]

He died on 7 December 1940 just two days before his 71st birthday.

Decorations

He received decorations including:

Commander of the Military Order of Avis of Portugal (11 March 1919)^[5]
Grand Officer of the Military Order of Avis of Portugal (19 October 1920)^[5]

Published works

Aplicação das tábuas de estrada e logaritmos de subtracção do método de Ste Hilaire (1889)
Viagens nas regiões antárcticas (Voyages in the Antarctic Regions)
O encontro da expedição de Nordenskiold pelo navio argentino Uruguay [About the Nordenskjold Expeditiion with the Argentine Navy in Uruguay] (1903)
Tábuas Náuticas [Navy Boards/ (1907)
Marinharia dos Descobrimentos (1933)
La Science Nautique des Portuguais à l’époque des Découvertes [Portuguese Navy Sciences in the Age of Discovery] (1935)
Às portas da Índia em 1484 [Ports of India in 1484] (1936)
Sobre uma nova versão do descobrimento da Ilha de Santiago de Cabo Verde [About the New Version of the Discovery of the Island of Santiago de Cabo Verde] (1938)
Cartas das ilhas de Cabo Verde de Valentim Fernandes: 1506-1508 [Maps of the Cape Verdean Islands by Valentim Fernandes] (1939)
A Carta de Pêro Vaz de Caminha [A Map by Pero Vaz de Caminha]
Roteiros portugueses inéditos da carreira da Índia do século XVI (1940)

Unfinished works related to the navy

Livros de Marinharia do século XVI (Marine Books of the Sixteenth Century)
Roteiro da primeira viagem de Vasco da Gama, by Álvaro Velho
Collection of complete works by Pedro Nunes.

References

↑ "Fontoura da Costa - Hydrographic Institute". hidrografico.pt (in Portuguese).
↑ "Cape Verde". rulers.org.
↑ "Cape Verde". worldstatesmen.org.
↑ "Centennial of the Portuguese Republic" (in Portuguese). City of Lisbon.
1 2 3 "Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Portuguesas" (in Portuguese). Presidency of the Portuguese Republic. Retrieved 1 August 2013.

Preceded by Joaquím Pedro Vieira Júdice Bicker	Colonial governor of Cape Verde 1915-1918	Succeeded by Teófilo Duarte

Governors of Cape Verde
Corregedors (Magistrates) (1481-1588)	Pero Lourenço Pero de Guimarães João Alemão Leonis Correia Gaspar Correia Estêvão de Lagos André Feio Simão Afonso Pero Moniz António Ferreira Pero de Araújo Jorge Pimentel Manuel de Andrade Luís Martins Evangelho Gregorio Martins Caminha Bernardo de Alpoim António Velho Tinoco Cristóvão Soares de Melo Diogo Dias Magro Gaspar de Andrade Amador Gomes Raposo
Governors (1588-1974)	Duarte Lobo da Gama Brás Soares de Melo Francisco Lobo da Gama Fernão de Mesquita de Brito Francisco Correia da Silva Francisco Martins de Sequeira Nicolau de Castilho Francisco de Moura Francisco de Moura Rolim Manuel Afonso da Guerra Francisco de Vasconcelos da Cunha João Pereira Corte-Real Cristóvão Cabral Jorge de Castilho Jerónimo Cavalcanti de Albuquerque João Serrão da Cunha Lourenço Garro Jorge de Araújo Roque de Barros do Rego Gonçalo de Gamboa de Ayala Pedro Semedo Cardoso Jorge de Mesquita Castelo-Branco Pedro Ferreira Barreto Francisco de Figueroa António Galvão Manuel da Costa Pessoa Manuel Pacheco de Melo João Cardoso Pássaro Manuel da Costa Pessoa Inácio da Franca Barbosa Veríssimo de Carvalho da Costa Vitoriano da Costa Diogo Ramires Esquível Manuel António Pinheiro da Câmara António Gomes de Mena António Salgado Jorge Cotrim de Melo Gonçalo de Lemos Mascarenhas Rodrigo de Oliveira da Fonseca José Pinheiro da Câmara Manuel Pereira Calheiros e Araújo Serafim Teixeira Sarmento de Sá Baltasar de Sousa Coutinho António Vieira Francisco Miguel da Nóbrega e Vasconcelos Francisco de Oliveira Grans Bento Gomes Coelho José da Fonseca Barbosa João Zuzarte de Santa Maria António José de Eça e Faria Luís António da Cunha de Eça Manuel António de Sousa e Meneses Marcelino Pereira de Ávila António de Barros Bezerra Bartolomeu de Sousa de Brito Tigre João Jácome de Brito Barena Henriques Joaquim Salema de Saldanha Lobo António do Vale de Sousa e Meneses Duarte de Melo da Silva Castro e Almeida Francisco de São Simão António Machado de Faria e Maia Francisco José Teixeira Carneiro José da Silva Maldonado de Eça Marcelino António Bastos D. António Coutinho de Lencastre António Pusich João da Mata Chapuzet Caetano Procópio Godinho de Vasconcelos D. Duarte da Costa de Sousa de Macedo José Coutinho de Lencastre Manuel António Martins Joaquim Pereira Marinho Domingos Correia Arouca Joaquim Pereira Marinho João de Fontes Pereira de Melo Francisco de Paula Bastos José Miguel de Noronha João de Fontes Pereira de Melo Fortunato José Barreiros António Maria Barreiros Arrobas Sebastião Lopes de Calheiros e Meneses Januário Correia de Almeida Carlos Joaquim Franco José Guedes de Carvalho e Meneses Caetano Alexandre de Almeida e Albuquerque G. C. Lopes de Macedo Vasco Guedes de Carvalho e Meneses António de Nascimento Pereira de Sampaio João Paes de Vasconcellos João Cesário de Lacerda Augusto César Cardoso de Carvalho José Guedes Brandão de Melo Fernando de Magalhães e Menezes José Guedes Brandão de Melo Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto João Cesário de Lacerda Arnaldo de Novais Guedes Rebelo Francisco de Paula Cid António Alfredo Barjona de Freitas Amâncio de Alpoim Cerqueira Borges Cabral D. Bernardo António da Costa de Sousa de Macedo Martinho Pinto de Queiros Montenegro António de Macedo Ramalho Ortigão Artur Marinha de Campos Joaquím Pedro Vieira Júdice Bicker Abel Fontoura da Costa Teófilo Duarte Manuel Firmino de Almeida da Maia Magalhães Filipe Carlos Días de Carvalho Julio Henríques d'Abreu João de Almeida António Álvares Guedes Vaz Amadeu Gomes de Figueiredo José Diogo Ferreira Martins João de Figueiredo Carlos Alberto Garcia Alves Roçadas Manuel Marques de Abrantes Amaral António Augusto Peixoto Correia Silvino Silvério Marques Leão Maria Tavares Rosado do Sacramento Monteiro António Adriano Faria Lopes dos Santos Basílio Pina de Oliveira Seguro Sérgio Fonseca Henrique Afonso da Silva Horta Vicente Manuel de Moura Coutinho de Almeida d'Eça
High commissioner (1974-1975)	Vicente Manuel de Moura Coutinho de Almeida d'Eça

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