António Teixeira de Sousa

António Teixeira de Sousa, second Count of Sousa Palmela, was a Portuguese medical doctor who made his career in politics under the Constitutional Monarchy. Born in 1857, he graduated in medicine at the University of Porto in 1883 and joined the conservative Regenerator Party, winning election to the Chamber of Deputies in 1889. He served as minister of the Navy and Overseas and twice as minister of Finance, and on 26 June 1910 became President of the Council of Ministers. He was the last prime minister of the monarchy before the republican revolution of 5 October 1910. He died in 1917, having shown moderate support for the new republic.