Branca de Gonta Colaço

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Syder and the second or paternal family name is Ribeiro.

Branca Eva de Gonta Syder Ribeiro Colaço (8 July 1880 – 22 March 1945), better known as Branca de Gonta Colaço, was a Portuguese writer, scholar and linguist. She was the daughter of Charlotte Ann Syder, a British poet, and the Portuguese politician and writer Tomás Ribeiro. She married Jorge Rey Colaço, a renowned ceramist and was the mother of the sculptor, Ana de Gonta Colaço.

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