page_title: Sporting Club of Cascais
section_title: Members
hierarchical_section_title: Sporting Club of Cascais / Members
caption_attribution_description: English: King Carlos with ladies at the Cascais Sporting Club in 1905. Photo: Joshua Benoliel
context_page_description: The Sporting Club of Cascais was an elite sports and recreational society in Cascais in the Lisbon District of Portugal.
context_section_description: All early members were from “well-known families” and access by other social classes was virtually impossible. This would only change with the establishment of the Republic and, even so, only slowly. Members included foreign ambassadors who felt it necessary to be close to the King when he was absent from Lisbon, as well as politicians such as Fontes Pereira de Melo, Henrique de Barros Gomes, António de Serpa Pimentel, José Dias Ferreira and Francisco Joaquim Ferreira do Amaral. The military was represented by Hermenegildo Capelo and Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro, while writers included Camilo Castelo Branco and Edgar Prestage, Britain's leading authority on Portuguese history and literature. Among businessmen and bankers were Jorge O’Neill. The photographer, Joshua Benoliel, was also a member.
caption: King Carlos at the Cascais Sporting Club
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