He was a son of António Osório Sarmento de Figueiredo and Elvira Lucinda Augusta or Luísa Lucinda Augusta Borges Peixoto, both born in Santa Marta de Penaguião, Cumieira.
Bachelor graduated in Law from the University of Coimbra, where he was one of the Awarded Student at the Academic Faculties in the lecturing year of 1875 to 1876 and who received their respective Diplomas at the great room of the acts on day 16 October 1876 as 3rd Accessit of the 3rd year of Law and was the 21st enrolled in the 4th year of Law listed as the son of António Osório Sarmento de Figueiredo, from Cumieira, Vila Real District, and living at Rua do Corpo de Deus, n.º 104.
He was one of the first Members of the newly created Commission of Fisheries as an Auditor of the Navy by Decree of 5 April 1895.
[5] He was an Assistant of the Procurator of the Crown and Treasury, then renamed Procurator General of the Republic, exonerated from his office after the 5 October 1910 revolution on 24 October 1910, remaining attached to the judicial magistrature as a 1st Class Judge.
[7] He married on 29 August 1880/1881 Maria Ludovina de Sousa Horta[8][9] (7 July 1852 - 1 January 1935), only daughter of Miguel António de Sousa Horta Almeida e Vasconcelos, 2nd Baron of Santa Comba Dão, and first wife and first cousin Maria Ludovina Vieira da Silva de Sousa Almeida e Vasconcelos, and had three children: