William Andreas Salicus Fane De Salis

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William Andrew Salius Fane de Salis (27 October 1812 - 3 August 1896) was a businessman and barrister.

De Salis was the third son of Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio (d. 1836), by his third wife, Henrietta Foster (d. 1856). Peter John Fane, Count de Salis was an elder half-brother. William Foster Stawell was a first cousin, and the poet Lord De Tabley was a nephew.

Born in St. Marylebone, Westminster, brought up in County Louth he was educated at Eton (1824-27); Heidelberg University (1828-29); and Oriel College, Oxford (1830-1834, Classics, 4th class).

He was called to the Bar, 30 January 1836; and was at 3 Brick Court, Inner Temple, by 1840. The revising barrister in Northants (1839) and then Nottingham, he sailed to Australia in 1842, 1844 and 1848. He became, with John Thacker, a partner in Thacker & Co, Jardine Matheson’s affiliated house in Sydney, but resigned from 1 July 1847. By 1848 he owned with Robert Towns a 345 ton barque, the Statesman, This they sold, March 1854, for $16,500, she having had an accident 'on her passage up to China from Sydney' trading sandalwood, tea pines... He was a director of the Union Bank of Australia; and in April 1849 he joined the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company. He was a director 1851-1895 and chairman 1878-1881.

He was also a director of the Australian Agricultural Co (AAco) and its offshoot the Peel River Land and Mineral Co Ltd; from 1852 to 1874/80 he was deputy chairman and then chairman of the London Chartered Bank of Australia. Back in England he had joined the Grand Junction Canal Co in 1850.

In the 1850s he lived between the Jerusalem Coffee House; Dawley Lodge (near Hillingdon); 1, Upper Belgrave street; 24 Wilton street, and 107 Eaton square.

From the late 1850s he lived at Dawley Court, near Hillingdon, Middlesex and Teffont Manor, Teffont Evias, Wiltshire, home of his wife Emily Harriet (d 24 July 1896), eldest daughter of J.T. Mayne, who he had married on 12 March 1859.

FGS, FRGS, JP for Middlesex, (1868), Lord of the Manor and Patron of Teffont, JP for Wiltshire. He co-founded the Harlington, Hounslow and Cranford Cottage Hospital in 1884.

[edit] Works by W. Fane De Salis

• Reminiscences of Travel in China and India in 1848, 1892 (private circulation).
• Introductory Remarks to a Residence In Australia, And To Travels In China And India, (a short pamphlet).
• Original Poems with Translations from the German of Schiller, (private circulation).

[edit] 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, 1934.
• Burke's Irish Family Records, ed. Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, 1976.
• Der Grafliche Hauser, Band XI [volume 11], Genealogisches Handbuch Des Adels, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn, 1983 (pps 331-356).
• Thomas Skinner, The Directory of Directors 1880, London, 1880. (a list of directors of joint stock companies in the UK).

[edit] Ancestors

Some of William De Salis's ancestors

William Fane de Salis	Jerome, Count De Salis	Peter, Count de Salis	Jerome, Count de Salis
			Hon. Mary Fane, daughter of 1st Lord Fane.
		Anna v. Salis-Soglio	Giovanni v. Salis-Soglio (1707-1790).
			Katherina Barbara (1711-1788), daughter of Rudolfo v. Salis-Soglio (1652-1735).
	Henrietta Foster (1785-1856).	Rt. Rev. William Foster, DD (1744-1797).	Lord Chief Baron of the (Irish) Exchequor, Anthony Foster (1705-1779), of Collon, co. Louth. They married in 1736. His nephew, John Foster, was the first husband of Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire.
			Elizabeth (d.1744), daughter of William Burgh, of Bert, co. Kildare.
		Catharina-Letitia Leslie (d. 23/11/1814).	Rev. Dr. Henry Leslie (1719-1803), LLD, of Ballibay, co. Monaghan. A scion of the family of the Earl of Rothes. Prebend of Tullycorbet and then of Tandragee (44 years). His father, Rev. Peter Leslie, was rector of Ahoghill, and married Jane, the daughter of Rt. Rev. Dr. (Anthony) Dopping, Bishop of Meath.
			Catherine, daughter of the Very Rev. Charles Meredyth, of Newtown, co. Meath. Dean of Ardfert, by his wife Letitia Vesey.

William De Salis	His brother John	His wife, Emily Mayne	His brother Leopold
A sister-in-law, Leopold's wife	His sister Henrietta. (She was wife to Colonel Bisse-Challoner)	Great-nieces, Kathleen & Sybil Garratt. (Grand-daughters of his brother John)	Niece and great-niece
Great-niece, Barbara Sotheby	Nephew (Rodolph) and great-niece (Edith Margery)	Nephew, Admiral Sir William De Salis	Niece: Georgiana de Salis, Mrs Hamilton
His eldest brother, Count Peter John Fane de Salis	Niece: Mrs Thomas Filgate (d.1917)