Rodolph Fane De Salis, ( Fringford, 10 December 1854 - 26 November 1931 (buried in Virginia Water)), FGS,

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, civil engineer who was a director and then chairman of the Singer Motor Company of Coventry; President of the Canal Association; the last chairman of the

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Co.; and director of the

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, the Great Central Railway, and of the Coventry Canal. A nephew of William Fane de Salis and the eldest son of Rev. Henry-Jerome Fane De Salis, of Fringford and then

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, the seventh son of the 4th Count de Salis, he was educated at Eton and ( Trinity Hall, Cantab). Sir

Cecil Fane De Salis Sir Cecil Fane de Salis, , (31 May 1857 – 9 March 1948) was chairman of Middlesex County Council 1919–1924, and landowner in the parish of Harlington. Biography Second of four sons of Rev. Henry Jerome Fane De Salis of Portnall Park ...

and Charles De Salis, Bishop of Taunton were two of his three brothers. Burke's Landed Gentry, edited by Peter Townend, eighteenth edition, volume one, London, Burke's Peerage, 1965, (pages 251-253). He was also a sometime Lieutenant in the Surrey Volunteer Regiment. Rodolph Fane de Salis (died 1931) by George Spencer Watson (British, who died in 1934)

Rodolph Fane de Salis (died 1931) by George Spencer Watson (British, who died in 1934)

Lived in Acton, Westminster and Barkeston gardens, Kensington. He inherited

from his father in 1915 and sold it in 1924. He lived subsequently at

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house, county Buckingham, which was within five miles of where he was born. His recreations were listed in ''

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'' as motoring and golfing. A member of United University Club and Garrick Club. His cars had number plates DU 4726 and DU 6765.

Marriages

He married firstly,

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27.6.1878, Edith Louisa Catherine (Southsea, 1855- 21.10.1920), daughter of E. Edwards Rousby (d.1875) of

House, Oxfordshire, by Louisa Catherine, daughter of Major Johns, Royal Marine Forces, and had one daughter: :Edith Margery (Margaret), (London 12.7.1882 - †Folkestone 22.6.1932), probably the actress Margery Fane. He married secondly on 20.12.1921, Edith Dorothea, (1871 - †Oxford 3.9.1931 (buried Virginia Water), daughter of Canon T. Poole Morgan of Kilnagleary, county Cork. His daughter Margery married: *first: on 16.6.1910, Dr. Hugh Wansey Bayly, (Warminster 10.5.1873 - †Gt. Snoring, Norfolk ...1946); Clare coll., Cantab. (MA); MC, MRCS, LRCP (marriage dissolved 1913). *second: Kensington 1914, Charles James Vavasour Sandford, (Great Harwood, Lancs. 1875- †Killed c. 7.5.1917); *third: 10.1.1918, (Frederick) Lock Whittaker, (1880-?); sometime of 19 Radnor Park Road, Folkestone. Retired actor/stage artist by 1932; :By her first husband she had a daughter: ::Jessy 'Jena' Georgiana (or Georgina) Fane Bayly, aka Mrs Dunkerley (1911 - †Wiltshire 18.10.2003). Margery Fane De Salis in around 1890

Portrait

He wa
photographed
by Bassano in 1929. With his wife he wa
photographed
by Lafayette in 1927.

Note

Do not confuse him with his first cousin-once-removed, Henry Rodolph de Salis (1866-1936), also known as Rodolph and involved with canals and civil engineering.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fane De Salis, Rodolph 1854 births 1931 deaths British people of Swiss descent Rodolph Counts de Salis-Soglio and Comtes de Salis-Seewis People educated at Eton College Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge English civil engineers Burials in Surrey People from Cherwell District People from Virginia Water Rodolph