Botelho was born in Piracicaba on 14 May 1855 to Conde do Pinhal and Francisca Teodora Coelho.
[1] In 1867, Botelho completed his first studies at the Pátio do Colégio, a traditional Jesuit college in Itu, São Paulo.
[1] Botelho began working at the Santa Casa de Misericórdia, serving as its first Clinical Director from 1891 to 1894.
As the owner of São Paulo's first private medical practice, he was among the first urologists to practise in Brazil.
[2] He was a founding member of the First Brazilian Congress of Medicine and Surgery in Rio de Janeiro.