Rosendo Ayres Ribeiro, ''MD'' ( Goa, 1871 — London, 2 February 1951) was a Portuguese physician and diplomat.

Career

He arrived in Mombasa in May 1889 and later, as Goa was part of the Portuguese Empire, was entitled Vice-Consul of Portugal in Nairobi. He was Kenya’s first private medical practitioner and the first to diagnose

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in this country. Curiously, he used to ride a zebra he tamed to attend his patients' house calls. Ribeiro is a recipient of the Order of British Empire for the extent of his

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works in Kenya., Errol. ''The Kenya Pioneers''. Heinemann, 1985. 240 p.

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1871 births 1951 deaths Portuguese diplomats Portuguese people of Goan descent Portuguese general practitioners Kenyan general practitioners 19th-century Portuguese physicians 20th-century Kenyan physicians Kenyan people of Goan descent People from Portuguese India {{Portugal-med-bio-stub