Caetano Francisco Pereira Garcez was born on June 29, 1809, of European parents in Ribander in Goa. He embarked for Portugal on February 22, 1833, as one of the three deputies to the courts elected by the Goa constituency on October 10, 1833 – he was reelected on April 15, 1835, and elected 3rd time on February 29, 1864. His parents were the general treasurer of the state, Caetano Manuel Pereira Garcez and D Páscoa Garcez; He began his public career in Goa as a free practitioner in the general accounting department of the treasury, admitted by the treasury board on June 22, 1823; he became a clerk on December 14 of the same year and a temporary clerk on March 18, 1830.
Mr. Garcez was one of those who emigrated to Bombay and Daman following the cause of legitimacy, as a result of which he was dismissed by the provisional government of Goa by its order of April 23 of the same year 1833. In Daman, when the secretary of the prefecture Constancio Roque da Costa died, he was appointed to that position by order of the mayor of February 1, 1836, which he served for one year and precisely on February 1, 1837 he obtained his dismissal with the news that a new governor general had been appointed for the state of India in the person of Baron de Sabrozo and returned to his homeland.
He was one of the most notable writers of Goa of his time and a distinguished speaker of the Chamber of Deputies in Portugal—he defended in Daman strenuously the cause of the legitimacy of Mayor Peres, writing for the Portuguese newspaper of Bombay entitled “The Investigator” with his insinuating, vigorous, and elegant pen numerous articles against the intrusive government of Goa and outside this newspaper publishing loose papers and pamphlets, printed and lithographed, of which I possess many; — in Goa he was one of the editors of the Government Bulletin from December 30, 1837 to November 6, 1838, appointed by Baron Sabroso and as government secretary he wrote the same Bulletin in 1843 until the mission of 1844;— in 1845 he was a contributor to the private newspaper The Voice of the People of India, and in Portugal he wrote many articles for the periodicals and in the Chamber of Deputies he was always in conflict with the deputies Jeremias and Bernardo da Costa and gave long speeches, not only about matters in Goa, but in the metropolis, mainly in matters of finance. He died on November 5, 1868, at the age of 60.