George Fane De Salis (c. 1851 – 30 December 1931) was an Australian politician. He was born on Darbalara Station near

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to pastoralist

Leopold Fane De Salis Leopold Fabius Dietegen Fane de Salis, (26 April 1816 – 20 November 1898) was a Tuscan-born Australian pastoralist and politician. Born in Florence to Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio and Henrietta Foster, he attended Eton College and s ...

and Charlotte Macdonald. He received a private education and then farmed at

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and Michelago. On 28 February 1878 he married Mary Galliard-Smith, with whom he had eight children. He was elected to the

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for Queanbeyan in 1882, but did not re-contest in 1885. De Salis died at Michelago in 1931.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Desalis, George 1850s births 1931 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Colony of New South Wales people