Rosendo Ribeiro
Portuguese physician and diplomat
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Rosendo Ayres Ribeiro (1871 — 2 February 1951) was a Portuguese physician and diplomat.[1]
Career
Ribeiro arrived in Mombasa in May 1889 and later, as Goa was part of the Portuguese Empire, was entitled Vice-Consul of Portugal in Nairobi.[2]
He was Kenya’s first private medical practitioner and the first to diagnose bubonic plague in this country.[3] Curiously, he used to ride a zebra he tamed to attend his patients' house calls.[4]
Ribeiro is a recipient of the Order of British Empire for the extent of his benevolent works in Kenya.[5]
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