Rosendo Ribeiro

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Rosendo Ribeiro, MD riding his zebra.

Rosendo Ayres Ribeiro, MD (Goa, 1871 — London, February 2, 1951) was a Portuguese and British physician and diplomat.

Career

He arrived in Mombasa in February 1900 and later — as Goa was part of the Portuguese Empire — was entitled Vice-Consul of Portugal in Nairobi.[1]

He was Kenya’s first private medical practitioner and the first to diagnose bubonic plague in this country.[2] Curiously, he used to ride a zebra he himself tamed to attend his patients' house calls.[3]

Ayres Ribeiro is a recipient of the Order of British Empire for the extent of his benevolent works in Kenya.[4]

References

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  1. The Official Gazette of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya. Volume XXIV, July 19, 1922.
  2. City Park Cemetery
  3. Goa.com – biographies
  4. TRZEBINSKI, Errol. The Kenya Pioneers. Heinemann, 1985. 240 p.