Tomás de Sousa Rosa
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Tomás de Sousa Rosa (born November 2, 1844 in Venda Seca , Belas municipality , † August 23, 1918 in Paris ) was a Portuguese diplomat, military, colonial administrator and politician. I.a. he was governor of Macau and several times ambassador of his country
The original spelling of his name before the Portuguese spelling reform in 1911 was Tomaz de Sousa Rosa , so that this form of his name still appears occasionally today.
Life
Rosa was born in 1844 as the son of Tomás José de Sousa Rosa and Maria Emília de Bastos in Venda Seca, a town in the Belas municipality in the Sintra district .
After his school career, he began his military training on June 23, 1864 in the cavalry of the Portuguese Army . He then rose to the rank of military until his last promotion to colonel of the reserve in 1903.
On April 23, 1883, he became the 86th governor of Macau . At the same time, he was Portuguese Ambassador to China and accredited as Portuguese Ambassador to Thailand .
He remained the chief administrator of the Portuguese colony of Macau until August 7, 1886. After that, he was briefly the special ambassador of Portugal in Japan, as part of the delegation that concluded a Japanese-Portuguese trade agreement as part of the deepening of the Japanese-Portuguese relations that were resumed from 1860 onwards . In addition, he was head of the Portuguese commission when the Sino-Portuguese friendship and trade agreement was signed on December 1, 1887, which sealed the continued Portuguese sovereignty over Macau.
In 1889 he became Portuguese ambassador to the USA with the rank of Ministro plénipotenciário , the then full ambassadorial rank . In 1894 he moved from the American capital Washington to the French capital Paris, as a representative of Portugal in France .
After the Portuguese Republic was proclaimed on October 5, 1910, he was recalled on October 12, 1910.
He then stayed in Paris, where he died in 1918. Rosa was married and had a daughter, Maria Teresa de Sousa Rosa.
Awards
- 1877: Knight's Cross of the Order of Our Lady
- 1893: Grand Cross of the Order of Our Lady
- February 15, 1919: Order of Knights of Avis in the rank of commander
- April 19, 1919: Order of the Tower and Sword in the rank of Grand Officer
- April 26, 1919: Order of Christ in the rank of commander
- October 5, 1924: Grand Cross of the Order of Avis
Web links
- Entry on Tomás de Sousa Rosa at www.geneall.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ Afonso Zúquete (Coord.): Nobreza de Portugal e do Brasil , Editorial Enciclopèdia, Lisbon 1989, p 406
- ↑ a b Entry on Tomás de Sousa Rosa at www.geneall.net, accessed on April 25, 2020
- ↑ Website of the Order of Honor of the Portuguese Presidency , list of results after search query Tomaz de Sousa Rosa , accessed on April 25, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rosa, Tomás de Sousa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rosa, Tomaz de Sousa (original spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese diplomat, military, colonial administrator and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Venda Seca , Belas municipality |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 23, 1918 |
| Place of death | Paris |