Baron Roborough,of Maristow in the County of Devon,is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 24 January 1938 for Sir Henry Lopes,4th Baronet. He had earlier represented Grantham,Lincolnshire,in Parliament as a Conservative. The Baronetcy,of Maristow House in the County of Devon,had been created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 1 November 1805 for Manasseh Masseh Lopes,a member of a wealthy family of Portuguese Jewish origin,with special remainder to his nephew Ralph Franco,son of his sister Maria. Manasseh Masseh Lopes converted to Christianity in 1802,and later represented Evesham,in Worcestershire,Barnstaple in Devon,and Westbury in Somerset,in Parliament. However,in 1819 he was twice convicted of bribing the voters in both Barnstaple and Grampound in order to be elected to Parliament,and was sentenced to imprisonment and heavy fines. He was also unseated by the House of Commons,but after his release from prison he nonetheless got elected for Westbury,a pocket borough which he controlled to a great extent.
Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira,GCTE GCC GCIH ComA,is a retired Portuguese Army officer who was the last Governor of Macau.
Diogo Pinto de Freitas do Amaral was a Portuguese politician and law professor. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 10 January 1980 to 12 January 1981 and from 12 March 2005 to 3 July 2006. He also served briefly as Prime Minister in an interim capacity in the early 1980s,after the death of Francisco de SáCarneiro.
Manuel Maria Sarmento Rodrigues was a naval officer,colonist and professor. He was born in 1899 in Freixo de Espada àCinta,Portugal. He attended a secondary school in Bragança and attended the University of Coimbra. He entered the Naval School and concluded the marine course in 1921.
The Socialist Party of Timor is a Marxist–Leninist political party in East Timor.
Lopes is a surname of Portuguese origin. It was originally a Patronymic,meaning Son of Lopo,itself being derived from Latin lupus,meaning wolf. Its Spanish equivalent is López,its Italian equivalent is Lupo,its French equivalent is Loup,and its Romanian equivalent is Lupu or Lupescu. Notable people with the surname include:
The council of Güeñes is a municipality in the county of Encartaciones. It is furrowed by the waters of the river Cadagua and forms with its neighbor,the municipality of Zalla,Salcedo Valley. In the North it borders Galdames and k;in the east Alonsotegi;in the west the municipality of Zalla and in the south the municipality of Gordejuela. Its more important centres of population are Güeñes,Sodupe,The Quadra,Zaramillo,Sanchosolo and San Pedro de Goicouría.
The União Nacional dos Escuteiros de Timor-Leste is the national Scouting organization of East Timor. It was founded on December 2,2005 through the merger of the Corpo de Escuteiros Católicos em Timor-Leste and of Timor-Leste Scouting. The organization is a member of the Comunidade do Escutismo Lusófono. It became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement on 22 June 2017.
Viscount of Banho is an hereditary title created by Queen Maria II of Portugal,by decree on 21 July 1835,in favour of Alexandre Tomás de Morais Sarmento,at the same time that his brother was made 1st Baron and 1st Viscount of Torre de Moncorvo,of Tomás Inácio de Morais Sarmento.
The Viscount of Torre de Moncorvo is a title created by Queen Maria II of Portugal as a barony by decree dated 23 May 1835 in favour of Cristovão Pedro de Morais Sarmento,natural son,legitimated at the same time as his brother,the Viscount of Banho,of Tomás Inácio de Morais Sarmento.
Maria João Espírito Santo Bustorff SilvaGOM is a Portuguese restoration specialist,philanthropist and former politician. She is known for her historical and cultural restoration and preservation work in both Portugal and Brazil through the Ricardo Espírito Santo Foundation,and also for being Minister of Culture during the government of Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes.
Escalada is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo. It premiered on 6 January 1975 and ended on 23 August 1975,with a total of 197 episodes in Black and white. It's the fifteenth "novela das oito" to be aired on the timeslot. It is created and written by Lauro César Muniz and directed by Régis Cardoso.
Olga Moraes Sarmento da Silveira was a Portuguese writer and feminist.
The National Resistance of East Timorese Students was a resistance movement of students from East Timor against the Indonesian occupation between 1975 and 1999. RENETIL was established on June 20,1988,in Denpasar,Bali,Indonesia,by ten East Timorese students. with the leadership of Fernando de Araújo as General Secretary. This organization was later extended to other cities in Indonesia with East Timorese students.
Maria do Céu Sarmento Pina da Costa is an East Timorese doctor,academic and politician. From 2015 to 2017,she was Minister of Health. Sarmento is a member of the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT).
Tiago Amaral Sarmento is an East Timorese politician and lawyer.
