John Francis William de Salis, 6th Count de Salis (25 August 1825 – 7 August 1871) was a British diplomat that held the title of
Count de Salis-Soglio
Count de Salis-Soglio is a continental title of nobility that was recognized in the United Kingdom for a Swiss family which became British Subjects when Jerome, 2nd Count de Salis, was naturalized by private Act of Parliament (4 Geo. 2. c. ''5' ...
.
Life
He was the eldest son of Count
Peter John de Salis by his second wife Cecile Henrietta Marguerite, daughter of David Bourgeoise of
Neuchâtel
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.
After some education in London (Harrow) he was an attaché in Turin (October 1845-December 1849). Lived at Hillingdon. He was a JP for Middlesex. In 1860 he was commissioned into the
24th Middlesex Volunteer Rifle Corps. He was promoted
lieutenant
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later that year and
captain
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in 1861.
A renowned
numismatist
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, he is recorded on a large board as one of the
British Museum's major benefactors.
John Warren, 3rd Baron De Tabley
John Byrne Leicester Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley (26 April 1835 – 22 November 1895) was an English poet, numismatist, botanist and an authority on bookplates. Life
He was eldest son of George Fleming Leicester (afterwards Warren), Lord de Tabl ...
was a first cousin, and
William Fane De Salis an uncle.
He married (Iver, 1 February 1862) Amelia Frances Harriet, daughter of
Christopher Tower, JP DL MP, of Huntsmoor Park,
Iver
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and
Weald Hall
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Weald manor, parts of ...
, Essex, by his wife Lady Sophia Cust, eldest daughter of the first
Earl Brownlow
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.
In 1881 Burke's records the Countess at 7, Athlestone Terrace, Cromwell Road, London (where she died in 1885), and as at Grange Hill, Kilmallock, Ireland.
Children
Catherine Sophia (Katie) (29.1.1863-),
John Francis Charles (1864-) and Henry Rodolph
(Rudie) (1866-).
References
* ''Quadrennial di Fano Saliceorum, volume one'', by R. de Salis, London, 2003.
* ''De Salis Family : English Branch'', by Rachel Fane De Salis,
Henley-on-Thames
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, 1934.
* ''
Burke's Irish Family Records'', ed. Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, 1976.
* ''A genealogical and heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry'', by
Sir (John) Bernard Burke, CB, LLD, vol. 2, London, 1895/1899 (pages 574–77).
* ''Burke's Peerage'', Foreign Noblemen / Foreign Titles sections: 1851, 1936, 1956, etc.
* ''
Debrett's Peerage
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'', Foreign Titles section, 1920, etc.
* ''Der Grafliche Hauser'', Band XI
olume 11 ''Genealogisches Handbuch Des Adels'', C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn, 1983 (pps 331–356).
* ''Armorial Families, a directory of Coat- Armour'', compiled by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, volume 1, 1929.
* Obituary in the ''Numismatic Chronicle'' 1872, pp. 10–12.
* John Allan, 'The early history of the Department of Coins and Medals', ''BM Quarterly'', 1953, p. 76.
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