António de Saldanha da Gama, Count of Porto Santo

António de Saldanha da Gama, Count of Porto Santo

António de Saldanha da Gama, Count of Porto Santo (Lisbon, 5 February 1778^[1] – 1839) was a Portuguese politician, navy officer, diplomat and colonial administrator.^[1] He was the Portuguese plenipotentiary at the Congress of Vienna in 1815.^[2][3] While at the Congress he signed a number of treaties and documents on behalf of Prince Regent John of Portugal including the Declaration of the Powers, on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, on 8 February 1815.^[3] He was governor of the Portuguese colony Maranhão (northern Brazil) between 1804 and 1806,^[4] and of Portuguese Angola between 1807 and 1810.^[5] He was created count of Porto Santo on 26 October 1823.^[1]

References

1. Albano da Silveira Pinto (1883). "Resenha das Familias Titulares e Grandes de Portugal - Tomo II". pp. 338–39.
2. Hogg, Peter C. (1973), The African Slave Trade and Its Suppression: A Classified and Annotated Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Articles, Cass Library of African Studies, vol. 137, Routledge, p. 380, ISBN 9780714627755
3. "The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time …". T.C. Hansard. 1816. pp. 200–201.
4. "Brazil-Maranhão". worldstatesmen.org.
5. "Angola". worldstatesmen.org.