William Godfrey Thomas Pope
William Godfrey Thomas Pope (15 April 1880 – 15 May 1943) was a British citizen, who distinguished himself as an engineer and businessman in Portugal as General Manager of the Anglo-Portuguese Telephone Company. Early life William Godfrey Thomas Pope was born on 15 April 1880, the son of Thomas Godfrey Pembroke Pope, who was chaplain of St George's Anglican Church in Lisbon, capital of Portugal. His mother, Louisa Ann (née Baden-Powell), was a half-sister to the founder of the Scouting movement, Robert Baden-Powell. He was first baptised as William George Baden Thomas Pope, but his father changed his name after the death of his younger brother Richard Godfrey Pope, in order to keep the name Godfrey in the family. William did not follow his father into the church but, instead, became an engineer. He went to Lancing College in West Sussex, England and Trinity College, Oxford, before studying engineering at the City and Guilds Technical College in London. In 1902 he retu ...
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Lisbon
Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administrative limits with a population of around 2.7 million people, being the List of urban areas of the European Union, 11th-most populous urban area in the European Union.Demographia: World Urban Areas
- demographia.com, 06.2021 About 3 million people live in the Lisbon metropolitan area, making it the third largest metropolitan area in the Iberian Peninsula, after Madrid and Barcelona. It represents approximately 27% of the country's population.
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