João Maria Barreto Ferreira do Amaral, 2nd Baron of Oliveira Lima


João Maria Barreto Ferreira do Amaral, 2nd Baron of Oliveira Lima, OC was a Portuguese nobleman.

Ancestry

He was the only son of Augusto Basto Ferreira do Amaral, an Electrical Engineer from the University of London, Director of the Instituto Industrial do Porto, Officer of the Order of Aviz, etc., and wife Júlia Salvação Barreto, daughter of Joaquim Maria da Silva Barreto and wife Mariana Filomena Salvação, a descendant of Gil Vicente and possibly of a second cousin of Gustav I of Sweden. His paternal grandparents were Francisco Joaquim Ferreira do Amaral and Maria Helena de Albuquerque, 1st Baroness of Oliveira Lima.

Life

He was an Electrical Engineer and a Licentiate in Physico-Chemical Sciences from the University of Porto and was a former Director-General of Industrial Services and Member of the Superior Counsel of Economy, etc.
He was created an Officer of the Order of the Christ and became the 2nd Baron of Oliveira Lima by Alvará of the Conselho de Nobreza of 14 June 1981.

Marriage and issue

He married in Lisbon, Nossa Senhora de Fátima, on 7 October 1939 Maria José da Graça Facco Viana de Oliveira Martins, daughter of Joaquim de Oliveira Martins and wife Maria Joaquina Pereira Coutinho Facco Viana, of Italian descent and granddaughter of the Marquis of Soydos, and had one daughter and four sons: