Person
Fontes Pereira de Melo
Portuguese diplomat, politician, and enginee
António Maria de Fontes Pereira de Melo GCTE KGF (Lisbon, 1819 – Lisbon, 1887) was a Portuguese diplomat, politician, and engineer.
He is the son of João de Fontes Pereira de Melo and wife and first cousin Jacinta Venância Rosa da Cunha Matos.
Historically, he is a very important political figure, deputy, and in several occasions minister, six times Minister of Finance.