Manuel de Saldanha da Gama

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Manuel de Saldanha da Gama (born September 8, 1820 in Brazil , † April 19, 1875 in Lisbon , Portugal ) was a Portuguese colonial administrator.

Colonial service

In Portuguese India , Gama was captain ( Capitão graduado ) of Cavalry Regiment No. 2, the Queen's lancer . Between November 12, 1851 and August 4, 1852 he was the incumbent governor of Diu .

In July 1851, the governor of Portuguese Timor José Joaquim Lopes de Lima signed a contract with the Dutch without power of attorney in which he transferred ownership of several islands in the Lesser Sunda Islands to the Dutch exclave of Maubara in east Timor and 200,000 florins. Gama was then sent to Portuguese Timor , where he arrived on September 8, 1852. Lima was deposed and arrested. He died in Batavia on the way back to Lisbon . Gama held the office of governor until 1856. Gama could not reverse the assignment of the islands. From 1854 renegotiations were carried out with the Dutch and the redistribution of the territories between the colonial powers was finally confirmed with the Treaty of Lisbon .

On December 26, 1854, the exile of missionaries from Timor from 1834 was reversed by royal decree and priests were sent from Goa to Timor and Mozambique. But even after the clergy returned to Timor, missionary work in the interior of the island seemed to have been given up. In the same year, slavery was banned in Portuguese Timor, even if this did not prevail among local rulers until the 20th century. Gama 's term in office was unusually peaceful. During this period there were no rebellions by the local population.

family

Gama was the son of Manuel de Saldanha da Gama Torres Guedes de Brito , the seventh Count of Ponte , and the D. Joaquina de Castelo-Branco Correia da Cunha. The governor married Helène Theodorine de Pezerat, four years his junior, in Lisbon in 1845 . Together they had three sons and two daughters.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Geoffrey C. Gunn: Historical Dictionary of East Timor, 2010
  2. ↑ Worldstatesmen
  3. ↑ Schlicher, Appendix II; Source: Gonçalo Pimenta de Castro: Timor, pp. 44–162 and Marques, AH de Oliveira : História de Portugal, Volume III, Lisbon, Palas Editores, 1984, pp. 627/628.
  4. ^ Frédéric Durand: Three centuries of violence and struggle in East Timor (1726-2008). (PDF file; 237 kB), p. 5, Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence, (online), June 7, 2011, accessed on May 28, 2012, ISSN  1961-9898
  5. ↑ Geoffrey C. Gunn: History of Timor ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 56 - Technical University of Lisbon (PDF file; 805 kB), accessed on June 4, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pascal.iseg.utl.pt
  6. ↑ Gunn, p. 85
predecessor Office successor
José Joaquim Lopes de Lima Governor of Portuguese Timor
September 8, 1852-1856 		Luís Augusto de Almeida Macedo
personal data
SURNAME Gama, Manuel de Saldanha there
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese governor of Portuguese Timor
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Brazil
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1875
Place of death Lisbon , Portugal