Almeida Garrett

Died in 1854

Almeida Garrett was born in Porto on 4 February 1799, the son of a customs official; driven out by the French invasion, his family went to the Azores, where an uncle who was a bishop taught him. A law graduate of Coimbra and engaged in the liberal revolution, he went into exile in England in 1823, then in France. He took part in the Mindelo landing in 1832, sat in Parliament, was foreign minister for a few months in 1852 and had the National Theatre built. Made a viscount in 1851, he died in Lisbon on 9 December 1854.

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