José Francisco da Terra Brum

José Francisco da Terra Brum (10 March 1776 – 22 January 1842) was a merchant, winegrower, and the first Baron of Alagoa on the island of Faial in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.

His maternal grandparents were João Inácio Homem da Costa Noronha—a wealthy landowner, farmer, and soldier from an illustrious Angra do Heroísmo family—and Clara Mariana Xavier de Noronha Côrte-Real.

[2] His properties were situated along the Ribeira da Conceição (literally, Stream of the Immaculate Conception) and the so-called Alagoa coastline in what were then the outskirts of the city of Horta, Faial.

[1][2] On 22 December 1841, Queen Maria II of Portugal decreed Terra Brum the first Baron of Alagoa, creating the title in his favor.

[3] In 1901, King Carlos I of Portugal reinstated the baronage in favor of Manuel Maria da Terra Brum, José Francisco da Terra Brum's youngest son, and like his father before him one of Pico's largest winegrowers and a prominent public figure on both sides of the Faial-Pico Channel.