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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Rogério de Faria
|caption =
|office = |birth_date = {{birth date|1770|10|14}}
|birth_place = [[Chorão (Island)|Chorão]], [[Goa]]
|death_date ={{death date|1848|3|15}}
|death_place = [[Bombay]]
|residence = [[Bombay]]
}}

'''Rogério de Faria''' ([[Goa]], 14 October 1770 — [[Mumbai|Bombay]], 15 March 1848) was a Luso-Goan businessman.<ref name="Teo_2006">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2fUS0OHs9R0C&pg=PA136 |title=Reflected in Water: Writings on Goa |editor=Jerry Pinto |editor-link=Jerry Pinto |publisher=Penguin Books India |year=2006 |isbn=9780143100812 |pages=136–142 |author=Teotónio de Souza |author-link=Teotónio de Souza }}</ref>

== Biography ==
Rogério de Faria was a native of [[Chorão (Island)|Chorão Island]],<ref>Trade and Finance in Portuguese India: A Study of the Portuguese Country Trade 1770-1840 by Celsa Pinto, Page 58</ref> son of Joao de Faria and Ana Maria D'Albuquerque e de Faria. The family migrated to [[Bombay]] after [[epidemics in Chorão Island]] in 1775. A [[Catholic]] [[Goan]] in the world of business, he was a pioneer in the [[opium trade]] in [[China]], long before the [[United Kingdom|British]] thought of entering this branch of commerce.

== Consul of Brazil in Bombay ==

Rogério de Faria was referred to in [[Bombay]] as a prince merchant.<ref>Trade and Finance in Portuguese India: A Study of the Portuguese Country Trade 1770-1840 by Celsa Pinto, Concept Publishing Company (1994), Page 58</ref> A resident of Bombay, where he was [[Consul (representative)|Consul]] of [[Brazil]], Roger Faria did business in [[Bengal]], Bombay and [[Macau]]. He was a big supporter of mayor [[Bernardo Peres da Silva]], who had been appointed governor of [[Goa]] by the liberal government of [[Dom Pedro IV]] of [[Portugal]], but rejected by the military stationed in Goa.

==Biographies==
According to de Souza,<ref name="Souza1985">De Souza, Teotonio R. (1985) "Capital Input in Goa's Freedom Struggle" in ''Indo-Portuguese history: old issues, new questions.'' p 102-113 Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi.</ref> he accessed part of Faria's business correspondence dating back to 1789-1830, involving dealings with the [[Mhamai Kamat Agency House]] in Goa. De Souza <ref name="Souza1985" /> suggests that the pre-1818 papers offer "much interesting information" that could help correct and supplement "whatever we know about Rogerio de Faria from a few contemporary published sources and from a few late and sketchy biographies."

Abbé Cottineau's ''Journal'' describes Sir Rogerio Faria's house as "commanding a most lovely view of the sea, the ramparts, the suburbs, the city, the [[Colaba]] island, and the West coast as far as the so-called Malabar Point.<ref>''Instituto Vasco da Gama'', (May, 1874) n.29, p.105</ref> cited by Souza <ref name="Souza1985" />).

De Souza<ref name="Souza1985" /> says that Faria made his fortune in "opium-peddling", and writes: "We are not able to fully collaborate the statement, but we are told by the otherwise critical Indo-Portuguese administrator-historian, J.H. da Cunha-Rivara, that [[Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy|Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy]], the most glamorous [[Parsee]] figures of the mid-nineteenth century in the annals of Bombay, started his prosperous career as a simple clerk in the firm of Rogerio de Faria. Reporting the death of Sir Roger's daughter, Miss Margaret de Faria, the '''[[Bombay Gazette]]''' of 7 October 1889 added that Sir Jamsetjee had made his first voyage to China in a ship belonging to Sir Roger de Faria."

Faria had the financial losses. His only son died of tetanus after an accidental fall, a couple of years before him in 1848. The Goan journalist-editor A.M. da Cunha wrote a 30-page booklet <ref>''Sir Roger de Faria'', Nova Goa, 1928</ref> which Souza says "gives more details about the numerous progeny of Sir Roger than about him."

He lived out the rest of his life on a pension granted to him by his friend Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bombaywalla.org/facades-gloria-church-1913/|title=Gloria Faria {{!}} Bombaywalla|last=admin|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-09}}</ref>

==Memorial in Byculla==

Naresh Fernandes writes in Bombaywallah.org:<ref>http://bombaywalla.org/facades-gloria-church-1913/ Facades: Gloria Church (1913)</ref> "Gloria Church [in [[Byculla]], Bombay, now known as [[Mumbai]], contains a memorial stone to an almost-forgotten Bombay character: the Goan opium trader Sir Roger de Faria."

==See also==

* de Souza, Teotonio R, ''For Goa and Opium''. Goa: Penguin Books, 2006.
* de Souza, Teotonio R. "French slave-trading in Portuguese Goa (1773–1791)." ''Essays in Goan History'' (1989): 119-3.
* Trade and Finance in Portuguese India: A Study of the Portuguese Country Trade 1770-1840 by Celsa Pinto, Concept Publishing Company (1994)
* Markovits, Claude. "The political economy of opium smuggling in early nineteenth century India: Leakage or Resistance?." ''Modern Asian Studies'' 43.01 (2009): 89-111.
* Siddiqi, Asiya. "Pathways of the Poppy." ''India and China in the Colonial World'' (2005): 21.

==References==
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