Rosendo Ribeiro

Rosendo Ayres Ribeiro, MD
Ribeiro riding his zebra
Born 1871
Goa, Portuguese India
Residence Nairobi, Kenya
Occupation Physician and diplomat
Title MD

Rosendo Ayres Ribeiro, MD (Goa, 1871 — London, February 2, 1951) was a Goan and British physician and diplomat.[1]

Career

He arrived in Mombasa in February 1900 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 himself tamed to attend his patients' house calls.[4]

Ayres Ribeiro is a recipient of the Order of British Empire for the extent of his benevolent works in Kenya.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Reporter, Nairobian. "Did you know? Kenya's first private doctor visited patients on a Zebra". Standard Digital News. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  2. ↑ The Official Gazette of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya. Volume XXIV, July 19, 1922.
  3. ↑ City Park Cemetery
  4. ↑ Goa.com – biographies
  5. ↑ TRZEBINSKI, Errol. The Kenya Pioneers. Heinemann, 1985. 240 p.
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