Henry de Salis
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Henry Jerome Augustine Fane de Salis, (born Pisa 16 January 1828, died Virginia Water 18 February 1915) was an English cleric and JP (Surrey), of Portnall Park, Virginia Water.[1][2]
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Life[]
The seventh son of the 4th Count de Salis, he was educated at Eton College, and then Exeter College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1847 and graduated B.A. in 1850.[3]
De Salis was Rector of Fringford from 1852 until 1872.[3] He then inherited Portnall Park, Virginia Water, Staines, Surrey from his brother-in-law, Thomas-Chaloner Bisse-Challoner (1788-1872)[4][5] Later he was chairman of Egham's Holloway Sanatorium, and of the Old Windsor Board of Guardians.
Marriage[]
He married, on 29 March 1853, (Minnie) Grace Elizabeth Henley, (8 July 1823 - Virginia Water 28 August 1898), daughter of J. W. Henley, MP, and Georgina Fane.[citation needed] They had four sons- Rodolph, Cecil, William, and Charles Fane de Salis- and a daughter, Georgiana (1861-1910)[citation needed]
References[]
- ^ De Salis Family : English Branch, by Rachel Fane De Salis, Henley-on-Thames, 1934.
- ^ Burke's Landed Gentry, edited by Peter Townend, eighteenth edition, volume one, London, Burke's Peerage, 1965, (pages 251-253).
- ^ Jump up to: a b s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Salis, Henry Jerome (Augustus) Fane de
- ^ High Sheriff, Surrey, 1838.
- ^ NOTES OF PAST DAYS, By Cecil and Rachel De Salis, Henley-on-Thames, 1939. (Printed by Higgs & Co., Caxton Works).
- 1828 births
- 1915 deaths
- English people of Swiss descent
- Counts of Salis
- Counts de Salis-Soglio and Comtes de Salis-Seewis
- People educated at Eton College
- Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford
- Burials in Surrey
- People from Virginia Water
- De Salis family