Fenwick Bulmer de Sales La Terriere (1856–1925) was a

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of the British Army, Knight of the

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,'The Nobilities of Europe'
/ref> a member of the French nobility,Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, yr.1919
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The Peerage: Jean Pierre de Sales and an author. He was born at Alstone Lawn in Gloucestershire,The History of Alstone; Vol. 1
educated at

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The Oscholars Library: Commentary on Days That Are Gone and Bulmer De Sales La Terriere
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. He claimed to be descended from the French aristocracy, namely the Comte de Sales de Saint Salvy. He joined the army, serving in the 5th Battalion

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, and later as

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of the

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. He gained the rank of

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. From 18 January 1902, he was an Exon of the King's Body Guard of the

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. In 1924, de Sales La Terriere's autobiography, ''Days that Are Gone, being the Recollections of some Seventy Years of the Life of a very ordinary Gentleman and his Friends in Three Reigns'' was published.Google books: Days That Are Gone
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/ref> The autobiography received favourable reviews in The Times shortly after its publication.The Times. Friday, May 23rd 1924. pg 8 De Sales La Terriere was a luminary of fashionable society at the time, although the Oscholars Library called his opinions of Oscar Wilde "conservative and rather naïve"

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References

''La famille de Sales Laterrière'', H-R Casgrain (1870)
* Andres, Bernard. L'enigme de Sales Laterriere. Montreal, Quebec Amerique, 2000.
Image of Col. de Sales La Terriere with the Yeomen of the Guard before opening of Parliament
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