Rev. Count Henry Jerome Augustine Fane de Salis

Detail of a portrait of Rev. Henry Jerome Fane de Salis by Henry Jamyn Brooks.

Rev. Count Henry Jerome Augustine Fane de Salis, (born Pisa 16 January 1828, died Virginia Water 18 February 1915), JP (Surrey), of Portnall Park, Virginia Water.^[1][2]

Grace E. Henley (1823-1898), from 1853 wife to Rev. Count Henry-Jerome Fane-de Salis.

A younger half-brother of Peter, 5th Count de Salis and a full brother of William Fane de Salis, he was the seventh son of the 4th Count de Salis. Educated at Eton, c1841, and then Exeter College, Oxford, he was Rector of Fringford, Bicester, Oxfordshire from 1852 until 1872 when he inherited Portnall Park, Virginia Water, Staines, Surrey from his brother-in-law, Colonel Thomas-Chaloner Bisse-Challoner (1788-1872)^[3][4] Later he was chairman of Egham's Holloway Sanatorium, and of the Old Windsor Board of Guardians.

Pencil drawing of Henry Jerome Fane de Salis, aged 9, in 1837.

Carte de visite of Rev. Henry Jerome Fane de Salis.

Marriage

He married, on 29 March 1853, (Minnie) Grace Elizabeth Henley, (8 July 1823 - Virginia Water 28 August 1898), daughter of the Rt. Hon. Joseph Warner Henley, MP,^[5] of Waterperry House, Oxfordshire, by his wife Georgina (d.1864) (married 9 December 1817), fourth daughter of John Fane (d.1824) of Wormsley, MP, by his wife Lady Elizabeth Parker (d.1829), daughter of Thomas, 3rd Earl of Macclesfield.^[6] They had four sons and a daughter:

• Rodolph, (born Fringford, 10 December 1854, died 26 November 1931 (buried Virginia Water).
• Sir Cecil, KCB, (born Fringford, 31 May 1857, died Wargrave 9 March 1948) (buried Harlington), of Dawley Court, Uxbridge, county Middlesex.
• Admiral Sir William, KBE, (born Fringford 21 July 1858, died Roche Court, north Fareham 23 January 1939).

Daughter: Georgie Hamilton (d.1910)

• Charles Fane de Salis (Fringford, 1860–1942), MA, DD (theol), Bishop of Taunton from 1911 to 1930.
• Georgiana (born Fringford 18 September 1861, died 14 April 1910, buried Virginia Water).

References

1. De Salis Family : English Branch, by Rachel Fane De Salis, Henley-on-Thames, 1934.
2. Burke's Landed Gentry, edited by Peter Townend, eighteenth edition, volume one, London, Burke's Peerage, 1965, (pages 251-253).
3. High Sheriff, Surrey, 1838.
4. NOTES OF PAST DAYS, By Cecil and Rachel De Salis, Henley-on-Thames, 1939. (Printed by Higgs & Co., Caxton Works).
5. He was part of Lord Derby's capable but infamous Who? Who? Ministry
6. Joseph Warner Henley's great-grandfather (Francis) came to England from Cork as a cabin boy and became a London waterman.