Rosendo Ayres Ribeiro (1871 — 2 February 1951) was a Portuguese physician and diplomat.
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.The Official Gazette of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya. Volume XXIV, July 19, 1922.
He was Kenya’s first private medical practitioner and the first to diagnose bubonic plague in this country.City Park Cemetery Curiously, he used to ride a zebra he tamed to attend his patients' house calls.Goa.com – biographies
Ribeiro is a recipient of the Order of British Empire for the extent of his benevolent works in Kenya., Errol. The Kenya Pioneers. Heinemann, 1985. 240 p.
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