Peter de Salis, 3rd Count de Salis (28 June 1738 - 19 November 1807) was a soldier and official.

Early life and education

He was the second son of Jerome De Salis by his wife Mary, daughter of the first Viscount Fane. He was educated with his brothers, Charles and

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, in the

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, in Chur where his tutor was

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, and then at

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Career

He left Eton early in 1754 and was commissioned as an ensign in the 1st Regiment of Foot on 17 October 1754, which cost £900, subsequently he fought in the

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, becoming a lieutenant on 27 October 1760. He left the army a captain. Salis was Governor and Capitaine General of the

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1771–1773, and 1781–1783, where, it was said at the time, "with great munificence, insight and skill he hastened to relieve the poverty of the population of

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". Accordingly, in 1782 a statue was put up to him in a main square there. The statue was dismembered in 1797, but fragments survive.

Personal life

Salis was sent by his father to the Grisons where he married a second cousin in 1763, she died, ''morte avec une fille en couches'' a year later. In 1765 he married a first cousin, she died 18 months later. In 1769 he married a combined third and fourth cousin, she had two sons with him and outlived him 22 years. In March 1785 he inherited his mother's half share of the Bourchier-Fane estates in counties Limerick and Armagh, (

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). On 13 November 1785 he returned to England, landing with his family at Dover. From then he styled himself ''

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'' and lived mostly at 19 Orchard Street, near Portman Square; 11 Great Cumberland Street; in Hayes; and then at Hillingdon Park, Hillingdon-heath, near

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, a fine villa which Joseph Bonomi designed for him c. 1795–1797. He died 19 November 1809 at his house on Hillingdon-Heath.''The Times'', 26 November 1809 He was succeeded in his British estates by his elder son,

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and his younger son John/Johann/Giovanni seems to have inherited his Grisons property.

References

* R. de Salis, ''Quadrennial di Fano Saliceorum, volume one'', London, 2003 * Rachel Fane De Salis, ''De Salis Family : English Branch'', Henley-on-Thames, 1934. * manuscripts & muniments. * ''The Times'', notice of death, 26 November 1807, (page 3, column F). {{DEFAULTSORT:Salis, Peter 1738 births 1807 deaths 18th-century Irish landowners 19th-century Irish landowners Royal Scots officers People educated at Eton College British people of Swiss descent Swiss-Italian people

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