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Vasco Guedes de Carvalho e Meneses

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Preceded by
  
G.C. Lopes de Macedo

Preceded by
  
Joaquim Pinto de Magalhães

Succeeded by
  
João Tavares de Almeida

Succeeded by
  
António de Nascimento Pereira de Sampaio

Preceded by
  
Caetano Alexandre de Almeida e Albuquerque

Succeeded by
  
António Eleutério Dantas

Died
  
1 January 1905, Amarante, Portugal

Vasco Guedes de Carvalho e Meneses. (5 August 1824 – 1 January 1905) was a Portuguese colonial administrator and a military personnel.

He was the son of Francisco Guedes de Carvalho e Meneses da Costa, 1st Viscount of Costa with Ana José de Portugal e Meneses and brother of José Guedes de Carvalho e Meneses, governor of Cape Verde and Mozambique

He was nominated governor of Mozambique in 1853 and functioned for three years from 1854 to 1857. During his role as a governor, he made great fortune in the slave trade and was later dismissed by King Peter V. He pacified the Quelimane region.

He was nominated governor of Cape Verde in 1878 and later governor-general of Angola in the same year and remained until 1880.

In 1889, he was 103rd governor of Portuguese India and remained until 1891.

He was Commander of the Order of Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Vila Viçosa.

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