Career
He arrived in Mombasa in February 1900 and later — as Goa was part of the Portuguese Empire — was entitled Vice-Consul of Portugal in Nairobi. He was Kenya’s first private medical practitioner and the first to diagnose bubonic plague in this country. Curiously, he used to ride a zebra he himself tamed to attend his patients" house calls.
Ayres Ribeiro is a recipient of the Order of British Empire for the extent of his benevolent works in Kenya.