Teófilo Duarte

Teófilo Duarte

Colonial governor of Cape Verde
In office 1918–1919
Preceded by	Abel Fontoura da Costa
Succeeded by	Manuel Firmino de Almeida da Maia Magalhães
Colonial governor of Portuguese Timor
In office 1926–1928
Preceded by	Raimundo Enes Meira
Succeeded by	Cesário Augusto de Almeida Viana

Personal details
Born	6 October 1898 Idanha-a-Nova, Oledo
Died	16 May 1958 Lisbon
Nationality	Portuguese

Teófilo Duarte (6 October 1898 – 16 May 1958) was a Portuguese colonial administrator, a military personnel and a politician. He was leader of the Portuguese Legion, the Minister of Colony and took part in administrative roles in different companies in the Portuguese overseas colonies.^[1]

Biography

He was born in Idanha-a-Nova in Oledo.

He studied at São Fiel College, a Jesuit college in Covilhã and later made preparations for admission to the Military School at the University of Coimbra, as a cavalier. In 1914, he was promoted an officer, he was arrested in 1916 for collaborating with a communal revolt led by Machado Santos on December 13. In the following year, he took part in a revolt led by Sidónio Pais, having commanded the 7th Cavalry Regiment. He was later posted as captain.

He became governor of Cape Verde from 1918 to 1919,^[2]^[3] the year that a democratic revolution took place in Covilhã and Álvaro de Castro in Santarém.

After the death of Sidónio Pais, he was high commissioner of the Castelo Branco district, he took part in a revolt against the government of José Relvas, later he went to prison for six months. In 1920, he was fired from the Portuguese Army.

He was Governor of Portuguese Timor from 30 September 1926 to 22 December 1928.^[4]^[5]^[6] He came to the colony on September 30. He brought Portuguese immigration to the colony.^[7]^[8]

Between 1936 and 1937, he was member of the Central Board of the Portuguese Legion which was run by rJoão Pinto da Costa Leite (Lumbrales) presiding João Nepomuceno Namorado de Aguiar as commander-general, Armando Álvaro Gil Fortée Rebelo and Artur Águedo de Oliveira. He was removed from the post in 1937 and resulted in a great internal crisis that occurred in June.

He was Minister of Colonies from 2 February 1947 to 2 August 1950, director of the Mozambique Company and Benguela Railway Company.^[9] Before his death, he was head of the Banco Nacional Ultramarina (BNU).

On 1 September 1950, he was awarded with the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Christ.^[10]

Decorations

Grand Cross of the Order of Christ of Portugal (1 September 1950)^[10]

Published works

He wrote several journals including:

Colónia portuguesa de Timor [Portuguese Colony of Timor], Díli, s.n., 1928.
Timor, Famalicão, Tipografia Minerva, 1930.
Timor: ante-câmara do inferno [Timor, Antichamber of Fire], Famalicão, Tipografia Minerva de Gaspar Pinto de Sousa e Irmãos, 1930.
Timor: aspectos de administração colonial [Timor, Aspecs of Colonial Rule], Lisbon, Tipografia Carmona, 1930.
O Rei de Timor [The King of Timor], Lisbon, Parceria António Maria Pereira, 1931.
Sidónio Pais e o seu consulado [Sidónio Pais and His Consulate], Lisbon, Portugália, 1941.
Estudos coloniais [Colonial Studies], Lisbon, Colonial General Agency, 1942.
Timor, Lisboa, Colonial General Agency, 1943.
Ocupação e colonização branca de Timor [White Occupation and Colonization of Timor], Porto, Educação Nacional (National Education), 1944.

He had also written several articles in the review Portugal Colonial (Colonial Portugal)^[11] which existed between 1931 and 1937.

Honours

A place in Angola was named for him, a dam is also named for him.^[12] In Portimão a street is named for him, it is titled as Rua Capitão Teófilo Duarte^[13]

References

↑ Barreto, Madalena. Teófilo Duarte (PDF). History and Anthropology of "Portuguese Timor", 1850-1975. An Online Dictionary of Biographies. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
↑ "Cape Verde". rulers.org.
↑ "Cape Verde". worldstatesmen.org.
↑ "History of East Timor" (PDF). Technical University of Lisbon. (pdf)
↑ "Portuguese Timor". rulers.org.
↑ "Portuguese Timor". worldstatesmen.org.
↑ "History of Timor" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Technical University of Lisbon. (pdf)
↑ "Chronologie de l’histoire du Timor (1512-1945) suivie des événements récents (1975-1999)" [Chronolgy of the History of Timor (1512-1845) and the Recent Events (1975-1999)] (PDF) (in French). (pdf)
↑ "Políticos Portugueses da I República (1910-1926)" [Politics of the First Portuguese Republic (1910-1926)] (in Portuguese).
1 2 "Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Portuguesas" (in Portuguese). Presidency of the Portuguese Republic. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
↑ Rita Correia (11 June 2014). "Ficha histórica:Portugal colonial : revista de propaganda e expansão colonial (1931-1937)" (PDF). Hemeroteca Municipal de Lisboa. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
↑ "Brief Information with Photos of the Dams in Angola" (in Dutch).
↑ Rua Capitão Teófilo Duarte at Portugalio

Preceded by Abel Fontoura da Costa	Colonial governor of Cape Verde 1918-1919	Succeeded by Manuel Firmino de Almeida da Maia Magalhães
Preceded by Raimundo Enes Meira	Governor of Portuguese Timor 1926-1928	Succeeded by Cesário Augusto de Almeida Viana

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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