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Rev. Dr. Henry Jerome De Salis
Henry Jerome de Salis, DD, Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS, Society of Antiquaries of London, FSA, (20 August 1740 – 2 May 1810) was an English churchman. He was Rector of St Antholin, Budge Row, St. Antholin in the City of London and Vicar of Wing, Buckinghamshire, Wing in Buckinghamshire. He was also known as: ''Revd Henry Jerome de Salis, MA''; the Hon. & Rev. Henry Jerome De Salis, Count of the Holy Roman Empire; ''Dr. de Salis''; ''Rev. Dr. Henry Jerome de Salis'', and, from 1809, ''Rev. Count Henry Jerome de Salis''. Life He was the second of four sons of Jerome, 2nd Count de Salis, Jerome (Hieronimus), Count de Salis-Soglio by the hon. Mary Fane (ffane), eldest daughter of Charles, first Charles Fane, 1st Viscount Fane, Viscount Fane, by his wife Mary (1686–1762) daughter of the envoy hon. Alexander Stanhope, FRS, and sister of soldier-statesman James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope, James, Earl Stanhope (1673–1721). On returning from the Grisons in 1753 de Salis was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fellow Of The Royal Society
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science". Fellow, Fellowship of the Society, the oldest known scientific academy in continuous existence, is a significant honour. It has been awarded to many eminent scientists throughout history, including Isaac Newton (1672), Michael Faraday (1824), Charles Darwin (1839), Ernest Rutherford (1903), Srinivasa Ramanujan (1918), Albert Einstein (1921), Paul Dirac (1930), Winston Churchill (1941), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1944), Dorothy Hodgkin (1947), Alan Turing (1951), Lise Meitner (1955) and Francis Crick (1959). More recently, fellowship has been awarded to Stephen Hawking (1974), David Attenborough (1983), Tim Hunt (1991), Elizabeth Blackburn (1992), Tim Berners-Lee (2001), Venki R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
