D. Vitório Maria Francisco de Sousa Coutinho Teixeira de Andrade Barbosa, second Count of Linhares (25 June 1790 – 29 July 1857) was a Portuguese statesman.

Career

Vitório Maria Francisco de Sousa Coutinho Teixeira de Andrade Barbosa took part in the campaigns in Rio da Prata.

Vitório Maria de Sousa Coutinho, 2nd Count of Linhares

In 1817 was nominated Extraordinary Envoie and Minister at Turin.

Vitório Maria de Sousa Coutinho, 2nd Count of Linhares

In 1835 he took part of the ministry, being in charge of the Portuguese Navy.

Vitório Maria de Sousa Coutinho, 2nd Count of Linhares

In May, he became the second Portuguese Prime Minister.

He was part of the Câmara dos Pares (Chamber of Peers) in Saint Benedict's Parliament.

External links

Dicionário Histório Português

1790 births

1857 deaths

Prime Ministers of Portugal

19th-century Portuguese people

Counts of Linhares

Naval ministers of Portugal

Portuguese nobility