Antônio Luís Pereira da Cunha, Marquis of Inhambupe

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Antônio Luís Pereira da Cunha, first and only viscount of Inhambupe de Cima and marquis of Inhambupe (Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 6 April 1760 — Rio de Janeiro, 19 September 1837), was a Brazilian magistrate (juiz de fora), appellate judge (desembargador) and politician.

Biography

His father was Bartolomeu Pereira da Silva; his mother, Ana da Cunha Barbosa. His first wife was Isabel Joaquina de Assis; around 1789, he married Erculana Felizarda Figueira (died 1796); after her death, on December 13, 1801, in Lisbon, he married Maria Joaquina Gerleu da Rocha Dantas e Mendonça (1785–1861), with whom he had three children: Lourenço de Assis, Manoel Luiz and Marianna. He was the brother of Pedro Augusto Nolasco Pereira da Cunha. After completing studies in mathematics and philosophy, he went to Portugal to enroll at the Universidade de Coimbra on 20 December 1782. He graduated in law on 4 May 1787, and then became a magistrate. In 1789, he served as a juiz de fora in Torres Vedras (1789). Returning to Brazil, he was an ouvidor (a type of magistrate) in Bahia and an appellate judge (desembargador) in Pernambuco in 1792. In 1798, he was a member of the interim government of Pernambuco.

In 1802, he was appointed ouvidor in Rio das Velhas, Minas Gerais. In 1803, he took office as ouvidor of Sabará, Minas Gerais, and in 1806 he was appointed Chancellor of the tribunal da relação (appellate court) of Bahia. In 1805, he was appointed judge and desembargador of the Casa da Suplicação (supreme court) in Lisbon, Portugal. In 1809 he was part of the interim government of Bahia, in a triumvirate with José de Santa Escolástica Álvares Pereira and João Baptista Vieira Godinho.^[1] In 1818, he was a deputy of the Board of Commerce, Agriculture, Manufacturing and Navigation (Junta do Comércio, Agricultura, Fábricas e Navegação).

In 1823, he was

• Order of Christ
  , in 1802
• Order of Christ
  , in 1811
• Dignitary of the Imperial Order of the Southern Cross, in 1824

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