António Ribeiro Saraiva
António Ribeiro Saraiva de Morais Figueiredo (10 June 1800 – 15 December 1890), was a Portuguese fidalgo, lawyer, journalist, poet, and lieutenant of D. Miguel I.
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Biography
António Ribeiro Saraiva was born in Sernancelhe, the son of José Ribeiro Saraiva, Desembargador at the Casa da Suplicação and Francisca Xavier Constantina de Morais e Macedo.[1]
Ribeiro Saraiva enrolled in both faculties (Law and Canon Law) at the University of Coimbra, and later attended Mathematics and Philosophy courses. In Coimbra he was generally considered a very distinguished poet, being part of the group whose leader was António Feliciano de Castilho, later 1st Viscount of Castilho, of whom he was a close friend. He finished his studies in 1823, then spent some time in Lisbon, at his father's house.
In 1826, he joined the Legitimist Party and so had to emigrate to Spain in March 1827 and only returned to the Kingdom of Portugal when Don Miguel was acclaimed King of Portugal in 1828.
During his emigration, the princess of Beira D. Maria Teresa, married in Spain, took him as her private agent, employing him in continuous political commissions, to get her brother D. Miguel out of exile in Vienna, Austria, in which the princess used all her solicitude and valour.
Upon his return to Lisbon, the new monarch appointed him legation secretary in London in 1828 and chargé d'affaires in 1831, a position he retained until the end of May 1834. When the Portuguese Civil War ended and he learned of the Convention of Evoramonte, Ribeiro Saraiva decided never to return to Portugal, where a dynasty reigned that he could not and would not recognize.
He continued to reside in London, and was charged with several diplomatic commissions, by the governments of Austria and Russia, for the restoration of Miguel's government, which he could not achieve.
António Ribeiro Saraiva died at Paddock House, Saint Peters, in the county of Kent, on December 15, 1890, at the age of 90.
Works
- Lira Erótica (1821)
- Eu Não Sou Um Rebelde; ou A Questão de Portugal em Toda a sua Simplicidade (1828)[2]
- D. Miguel I. (1828)
- A Trombeta Final (1834)
- O Contrabandista (1835)
- O Passado, Presente e Futuro, ou Guia da Salvação Publica em Portugal (1835)
- Do Tratado de Comércio entre Portugal e a Grã-Bretanha (1842)
- Quid Faciendum? Considerações Oferecidas aos Partidos Portugueses, ao Presente Coligados para o Bem Nacional (1842)
- Noticia de Serviços no Libertar-se o Brasil da Dominação Portuguesa Prestados pelo Almirante Conde de Dundonald, Marquês de Maranhão (1859)
Notes
- ↑ Esteves Pereira, João Manuel; Rodrigues, Guilherme (1904-1915). Portugal: Dicionário Histórico, Corográfico, Heráldico, Biográfico, Bibliográfico, Numismático e Artístico. VI. Lisboa: João Romano Torres, pp. 292–94.
- ↑ French translation in the same year.
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- 19th-century Portuguese journalists
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- Portuguese lawyers
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- University of Coimbra alumni
