Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho, 1st Count of Linhares (4 August 1755 – 26 January 1812) was a Portuguese nobleman and politician.

Life

Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho was born in Chaves on 4 August 1755 to Francisco Inocêncio de Sousa Coutinho, Governor-General of

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, and Ana Luísa Joaquina Teixeira da Silva de Andrade. He attended the Royal College of Nobles and legal course at Coimbra University. He began his diplomatic career after the death of King

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in 1777 as envoy to the court at

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. With the transfer of the Portuguese Court to Portuguese Colonial Brazil he again became a government official. He died in

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on 26 January 1812. 1755 births 1812 deaths Counts of Linhares People from Chaves, Portugal 18th-century Portuguese people University of Coimbra alumni Portuguese nobility {{Portugal-noble-stub