Henry Jerome Augustine Fane de Salis, (born

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16 January 1828, died

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18 February 1915) was an English cleric and JP (Surrey), of Portnall Park, Virginia Water.

Life

The seventh son of the 4th Count de Salis, he was educated at

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, and then

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, where he matriculated in 1847 and graduated B.A. in 1850. s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Salis, Henry Jerome (Augustus) Fane de De Salis was Rector of

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from 1852 until 1872. He then inherited Portnall Park, Virginia Water, Staines, Surrey from his brother-in-law, Thomas-Chaloner Bisse-Challoner (1788-1872)''NOTES OF PAST DAYS'', By Cecil and Rachel De Salis, Henley-on-Thames, 1939. (Printed by Higgs & Co., Caxton Works). Later he was chairman of Egham's

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, and of the Old Windsor Board of Guardians.

Marriage

He married, on 29 March 1853, (Minnie) Grace Elizabeth Henley, (8 July 1823 -

28 August 1898), daughter of J. W. Henley, MP, and Georgina Fane. They had four sons- Rodolph,

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, and Charles Fane de Salis- and a daughter, Georgiana (1861-1910)

References

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