António de Medeiros e Almeida
António de Medeiros e Almeida (1895–1986), ComC; OB; ComB; GOMAI; GCMAI; OBE; OMC, was a Portuguese businessman, industrialist, collector and benefactor. He created the Medeiros e Almeida Foundation to bequeath his collection of decorative arts to his country. Youth and marriage António de Medeiros e Almeida was born on 17 September 1895 in rua do Salitre (no. 405) in Lisbon, Portugal. He was the eldest son of João Silvestre de Almeida (1866–1936) and his wife Maria Amélia Tavares Machado de Medeiros (1870–1952), both from the São Miguel Island in the Azores. Brought up in a prosperous household, António Medeiros e Almeida attended primary education in the Académica School. He went on to the Central Lyceum of Lapa in Lisbon (which gave rise to the Lyceum Pedro Nunes) and to the Passos Manuel Lyceum. After high school, in 1914, he enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon. The following year he asked to be transferred to Coimbra, where he would carry out his military service. Towards the end of 1917, after having completed the third year of medicine, his interest in the business world made him give up medicine and travel to Germany for a work experience returning to Lisbon