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Sporting Club Of Cascais
The Sporting Club of Cascais was an elite sports and recreational society in Cascais in the Lisbon District of Portugal. History The Club was formed on October 15, 1879, occupying the former parade grounds of the nearby Citadel of Cascais, and became known as the ‘Parade’. Enjoying patronage by King Luis and King Carlos, it was a very elite club, patronised by those who wanted to be and could afford to be close to the Royal Family, which, by 1879, was spending part of its annual summer holidays in the town. On December 31, 1904, the club's General Assembly unanimously approved its conversion into a Limited Liability Company. In June 1910 it was renamed as the Royal Sporting Club of Cascais, although “Royal” was soon rapidly removed following the establishment of the Portuguese Republic in October 1910. The club closed down in 1974. Its documentation is retained in the Cascais Municipal Archives, held at the nearby Casa Sommer. After closure the building first housed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos I Of Portugal
''Dom'' Carlos I (; English: King Charles of Portugal; 28 September 1863 – 1 February 1908), known as the Diplomat ( pt, o Diplomata), the Martyr ( pt, o Martirizado), and the Oceanographer ( pt, o Oceanógrafo), among many other names, was the King of Portugal from 1889 until his assassination in 1908. He was the first Portuguese king to die a violent death since King Sebastian in 1578. Early life Carlos was born in Lisbon, Portugal, the son of King Luís and Queen Maria Pia, daughter of King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, and was a member of the House of Braganza."While remaining patrilineal dynasts of the duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha according to pp. 88, 116 of the 1944 ''Almanach de Gotha'', Title 1, Chapter 1, Article 5 of th1838 Portuguese constitutiondeclared, with respect to Ferdinand II of Portugal's issue by his first wife, that 'the Most Serene House of Braganza is the reigning house of Portugal and continues through the Person of the Lady Queen Maria II' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Joaquim Ferreira Do Amaral
Francisco Joaquim Ferreira do Amaral, GCTE (Lisbon, Santa Catarina, 11 June 1843Some sources say 1844. – 11 August 1923) was a Portuguese naval commander and politician. Parents He was the only son of João Maria Ferreira do Amaral and his wife Maria Helena de Albuquerque, 1st Baroness of Oliveira Lima. Career He distinguished himself as a military and became a vice-admiral and admiral of the Portuguese Navy, conquering important territories in Cabinda, Angola. For his successes, the realm wanted to grant him the title of count, which he refused, suggesting that it would be better to grant it to his mother instead, who would be happier with it. He served as a Peer of the Realm by Royal Letter of 17 March 1898, Member of the Council of His Most Faithful Majesty, Minister of State and the first President of the Council of Ministers of Manuel II of Portugal, or 75th Prime Minister of Portugal, Deputy of the Nation, Governor of Moçâmedes, Governor of São Tomé e Príncipe, 7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Alonso Areizaga
Manuel Alonso de Areizaga (12 November 1895 – 11 October 1984) was a Spanish tennis player. He was the first Spanish tennis player of international stature. Biography Alonso was born at San Sebastián on 12 November 1895. He won the Spanish tennis championships in 1915, 1919 and 1920. He frequently played doubles with his elder brother José María (b. 1890) who also was a successful tennis player. In 1920, Alonso took part at the Summer Olympics at Antwerp. In singles, he reached the quarterfinals losing to British Noel Turnbull. In the same year, Alonso reached the semifinals at the World Hard Court Championships. At the 1924 Summer Olympics at Paris, Alonso reached the fourth round in singles. In the early 1920s, Bill Tilden wrote about Alonso: "Seldom have I seen such wonderful natural abilities as are found in this young Spaniard ..Alonzo has a terrific forehand drive that is the closest rival to W.M. Johnston's of any shot I have seen ..His overhead is at once seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Turnbull
Oswald Graham Noel Turnbull (20 December 1890 – 17 December 1970) was an English tennis player. He is best known for his gold medal in the men's doubles event (with Maxwell Woosnam) at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics. Before World War I Turnbull worked at the family firm of ship-owners. During the war he served as a driver, and during the Battle of the Somme won the Military Cross. In 1919 he had his first major tennis tournament, the Davis Cup. In 1921 he played again in the Cup and won the singles at the Portuguese Championships, but then disappeared from tennis for four years to focus on golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi .... In 1926 he returned to the Davis Cup, and in 1928 again won the singles at the Portuguese Championships. References 1890 birt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blanche Bingley
Blanche Bingley Hillyard (née Bingley; 3 November 1863 – 6 August 1946) was an English tennis player. She won six singles Wimbledon championships (1886, 1889, 1894, 1897, 1898, 1900) and was runner up seven times, having also competed in the first ever Wimbledon championships for women in 1884. She also won the Irish championships three times (1888, 1894, 1897); the German championship twice (1897, 1900); and the South of England Championships at Eastbourne, 11 times between 1885 and 1905. Early life Bingley was born in Greenford, west London, the daughter of a wealthy tailoring business proprietor. She was a member of the Ealing Lawn Tennis & Archery Club. Biography Wimbledon Her professional career at Wimbledon spanned almost 30 years, longer than any other woman to date. In 1884, she competed in the first ever Wimbledon championships for women, and two years later she captured the first of her six singles titles. Also a seven-time losing finalist, Bingley's 13 finals rema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guilherme Pinto Basto
Guilherme Ferreira Pinto Basto (1 February 1864 – 26 July 1957) was a Portuguese all-round sportsman and entrepreneur. He is considered to have been the pioneer of both football and tennis in Portugal, playing in the first recorded football match and winning the national tennis championships on nine occasions. Early life Guilherme Ferreira Pinto Basto was born in Santa Catarina, a district of the Portuguese capital Lisbon, to a wealthy and aristocratic family. His father was Eduardo Ferreira Pinto Basto and his mother Lucy Custance. After schooling in Portugal until he was 14, he attended various schools abroad, including the Catholic Downside School in southwestern England, as well as other schools in Paris and Germany. Showing great sporting ability from an early age, Pinto Basto became involved in various sports after his return to Portugal, both as a sportsman and as a promoter of sporting organizations. While he is particularly known for having popularized both football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramalho Ortigão
José Duarte Ramalho Ortigão () (24 October 1836 – 27 September 1915) was a Portuguese writer of the late 19th century and early 20th century. Biography Ortigão spent his early years with his maternal grandmother in Porto. He studied law in the University of Coimbra but he did not complete his studies. After returning to his home town, he taught French at a college run by his father. Among his students was Eça de Queiroz. In 1862 he dedicated himself to journalism and became a literary critic at the '' Diário do Porto'' and contributed to several literary magazines. At this period Romanticism was the dominant trend in Portuguese literature, led by several major writers including Camilo Castelo Branco and António Augusto Soares de Passos, who influenced Ortigão. In the 1870s, a group of students from Coimbra began to promote new ideas in a reaction against romanticism. This group, eventually called the ''70s Generation'', was to have a major influence on Portuguese liter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O Rei Dom Carlos E Senhoras No Sporting Club Da Parada De Cascais
O, or o, is the fifteenth letter and the fourth vowel letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''o'' (pronounced ), plural ''oes''. History Its graphic form has remained fairly constant from Phoenician times until today. The name of the Phoenician letter was '' ʿeyn'', meaning "eye", and indeed its shape originates simply as a drawing of a human eye (possibly inspired by the corresponding Egyptian hieroglyph, cf. Proto-Sinaitic script). Its original sound value was that of a consonant, probably , the sound represented by the cognate Arabic letter ع ''ʿayn''. The use of this Phoenician letter for a vowel sound is due to the early Greek alphabets, which adopted the letter as O "omicron" to represent the vowel . The letter was adopted with this value in the Old Italic alphabets, including the early Latin alphabet. In Greek, a variation of the for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Benoliel
Joshua Benoliel (13 January 1873 – 3 February 1932) was a Portuguese photojournalist. He was the official photographer for King Carlos I of Portugal. Biography Joshua Benoliel was born in Lisbon, to Judah Benoliel, a Gibraltar-born Jewish trader, and Esther Levy. Career He started working as a photojournalist for sports magazine Tiro e Sport, but most of his career was in the Portuguese newspaper O Século and its supplement Ilustração Portuguesa. He was also the Portuguese correspondent of Spanish newspaper ABC and French magazine L'Illustration ''L'Illustration'' was a weekly French language, French newspaper published in Paris from 1843 to 1944. It was founded by Édouard Charton with the first issue published on 4 March 1843, it became the first illustrated newspaper in France then, a .... Benoliel covered the main events in Portuguese history during the early decades of the 20th century, including the downfall of monarchy and the Portuguese participation in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Torlades O'Neill
Jorge Torlades O'Neill (15 December 1817 (registered 1825), in Lisbon, Encarnação – 18 November 1890), was the titular head of the Clanaboy O'Neill dynasty, whose family has been in Portugal since the 18th century. Family He was the second son who became the successor of the previous head José Maria O'Neill and wife Ludovina de Jesus Alves Solano, succeeding his older brother José Carlos O'Neill, who died unmarried and without issue. He was also the representative of the title of Viscount of Santa Mónica, in Portugal, after the death of his younger brother Henrique O'Neill, 1st Viscount of Santa Mónica unmarried and without issue. Life He was the Main Manager of the ''Casa Comercial Torlades'', Consul-General of Denmark, Belgium and Greece in Lisbon, Knight and Commander of the Order of Christ, and Knight and Commander of the Order of Our Lady of the Concepcion of Vila Viçosa, Commander of the Order of the Dannebrog of Denmark, Officer of the Order of Leopold of Belg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Prestage
Edgar Prestage (1869–1951) was a British historian and Portuguese scholar. Biography Born in Manchester on 20 July 1869, he served as professor of Portuguese at King's College, London between 1923 and 1936, and had authored over a hundred publications. He died in London on 3 March 1951. In his obituary, he was described as "Britain's leading authority of his era on Portuguese literature and history". Honours * Grand Officer of the Order of Saint James of the Sword, Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ... (2 September 1930) References External links * * * 1869 births 1951 deaths British historians Contributors to the Catholic Encyclopedia Translators to English Grand Officers of the Order of Saint James of the Sword People from Manchester< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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