Isidoro Francisco Guimarães
Appearance
Isidoro Francisco Guimarães | |||||||||||
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84th Governor of Macau | |||||||||||
In office 19 November 1851 – 22 June 1863 | |||||||||||
Preceded by | Francisco António Gonçalves Cardoso | ||||||||||
Succeeded by | José Rodrigues Coelho do Amaral | ||||||||||
Personal details | |||||||||||
Born | Lisbon, Portugal | 19 April 1808||||||||||
Died | 17 January 1883 Lisbon, Portugal | (aged 74)||||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 基瑪良士 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 基玛良士 | ||||||||||
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Isidoro Francisco Guimarães, 1st viscount of Praia Grande de Macau (19 April 1808 – 17 January 1883),[1] was a Portuguese colonial administrator who served as the governor of Macau from 1851 to 1863.[2] During his term, the gambling business in Macau was legalized in an attempt to generate revenues for the government.[3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Isidoro Francisco Guimarães, 1st viscount of Praia Grande de Macau". Geneall.
- ^ 澳門百科全書 附件三:人名錄. 澳門虛擬圖書館 (in Chinese). Retrieved 2020-03-28.
- ^ Ma, Sheng-mei (April 2011). "Dark Writ: Marginal and Magical Macao". Revista de Cultura (Edição Internacional) / Review of Culture (International Edition). Vol. 38. pp. 61–68.
- ^ Fei, Chengkang (1996). "7. A Sink of Iniquity". Macao 400 Years. The Publishing House of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences – via Biblioteca Virtual de Macau.