Honório Barreto

Honório Pereira Barreto (April 24, 1813– April 16 or 26, 1859) was a governor of the Portuguese province of Guinea.

Biography

Honório Barreto was born in Portuguese Guinea of a mother from Ziguinchor, Rosa Carvalho de Alvarenga, and Cape Verdean father João Pereira Barreto, Jr. He was educated in Lisbon. He maintained Portuguese control of the area and even extended its influence, in particular resisting French encroachment on the Casamance river.

He died at Fortaleza de São José da Amura in Bissau at 8:30 AM on either 16 or 26 April 1859 when he was in service.

His name is spelled Barretto on the cover and title-page of his 1843 book Memoria sobre o estado actual de Senegambia portugueza [microform] : causas de sua decadencia, e meios de a fazer prosperar (Lisboa : Typ. da viuva Coelho).

Honours

He was featured in a $500 and $1000 Guinea-Bissau escudo.

A corvette of the Portuguese Navy was named after him. Also a small street (as a largo) is named after him in the parish of Beato, Lisbon.