José Dias Ferreira, GCTE (30 November 1837, in

Arganil Arganil () is a town and municipality in Coimbra District, in Portugal. The population of the municipality in 2011 was 12,145, in an area of 332.84 km2. The present mayor is Luís Paulo Costa, elected by the Social Democratic Party. The munic ...

, – 8 September 1909, in

Vidago Vidago is a village and a former-civil parish in the municipality of Chaves, in the Portuguese district of Vila Real. Until its merger into the parish of Vidago, Arcossó, Selhariz e Vilarinho das Paranheiras., the civil parish administered an ar ...

) was a

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and

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, son of António Ferreira Dias (São Martinho, Urgueira, c. 1815 – Aldeia Nova, 27 August 1880) and wife Bernarda Pereira de Vasconcelos (c. 1810 – ?). He served as a Minister, 18th (4 January 1868), 27th (26 May 1870) and 48th (27 May 1892) Minister for Treasury Affairs and

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from 1892 to 1893 and was the country's most influential civil law scholar during the late 19th century.Various, ''Grande Enciclopédia Portuguesa e Brasileira'', Editorial Enciclopédia, Lisboa, Vol. 8, p. 948 He was also the 250th

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of the

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