Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio

Jerome de Salis, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio

Jerome de Salis, (4th) Count de Salis-Soglio DL, JP, FRS (14 February 1771 – 2 October 1836), Illustris et Magnificus was an Anglo-Grison-Irish noble and landowner.

Life

Count de Salis was the eldest surviving son of Peter De Salis by his third wife Ann, daughter of Bundespresident Antonio de Salis. His paternal grandfather was Jerome, (2nd) Count de Salis.

Arms of Salis quartered with Fane

Born in Chiavenna 14 February and baptised at Soglio 17 February 1771, he died 2 October 1836 at Dawley Lodge, Harlington, and lies buried in the ancient church of St Peter and St Paul, Harlington, London which was at the time in Middlesex.

In a letter of 1830 he proposed spending the winter in Madeira whence:

'...should the Antichrist appear next year, I can easily get a passage to Chilli... by the dream I had in 1815, or rather a waking vision during an illness I had in Dublin, the application of aerial navigation to military operations will be a sign of the coming of the Antichrist.'

De Salis was a friend of Samuel Wix, the high-churchman (, and paid for his Reflections concerning the expediency of a council of the Church of England and the Church of Rome being holden, with a view to accommodate religious differences (1818) to be translated into several languages.^[1]

Family

He married three times:

• (1) 12 August 1797 (Shirburn Castle): Sophia (1765 – 14 June 1803), daughter of Admiral Francis William Drake (1724–87), brother of Sir Francis Henry Drake, 5th and last Bart. Mother of Petrus Johannes, 5th Count.
• (2) 14 March 1807 (Stoke Poges): Penelope (died 20 December 1807), daughter of Dr. Robert Freeman, MD, of Uxbridge. Mother of one daughter.
• (3) 10 May 1810 (St. Thomas's, Dublin): Henrietta (Harriet) (9 October 1785 – 26 October 1856), daughter of Rt. Rev. William Foster, DD (1744–97), chaplain to the Irish House of Commons (1780–89), and then variously Bishop of Cork and Ross; Kilmore; and of Clogher. Brother of John Foster, of Collon, county Louth, Baron Oriel, and last Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. She was second cousin to one or two of the children of Lady Bess Foster. John Leslie Foster was her brother.

Mother of nine children.

Early life residences

_{(4th) Count de Salis}.

• Chiavenna (1771-
• Göttingen
• Upper Seymour street (1791–94)
• 21 Portman square (c. 1800–1808).

His children were born in

St. Marylebone, Westminster (February 1799, Petrus Johannes);

Langley, Bucks (December 1807, Sophia Juliana Penelope), married William Filgate of Lissrenny, co. Louth. Mother of Charles Roden Filgate;

_{His third mother-in-law, Catherine Letitia Leslie, aka Mrs. Foster}

Dublin (May 1811, Rodolphus Johannes Leslie Hibernicus), Colonel of the 8th Hussars;

St. Marylebone, Westminster (October 1812, (Willy) William Andreas Salicus (Fane));

Dublin (May 1814, (Nina) Catherina Barbara), (see her son John Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley);

Florence (April 1816, (Leo) Leopold Fabricius (Fabius) Dieteganus), went to New South Wales

(see Cuppacumbalong Homestead);

Paris (November 1817, Henrietta Maria Felicitas);

Paris (December 1819, (Johnny) John Jenry Anthony Gubertus) went to India;

Dublin (Dublin 1821, (Charly) Charles Louis Maximilian), Captain the Hon. C. Louis Fane De Salis (d. Pimlico, July 1845);

Bath (13 April 1826, (Hadie) Henrietta Emma Helena), (d.16.8.1863), wife to Col. Challoner, (11.12.1788–26.7.1872); and

Pisa (February 1828, (Harry) Henry Jerome Augustine), of Portnall Park, Virginia Water, formerly Rector of Fringford. (See his fourth son, Charles).

_{Second son: Lt. General Rodolph John Leslie Hibernicus de Salis (1811–1880), Colonel of 8th Hussars. Photographed c.1870.}

Children

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  Peter

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  Sophie

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  Rodolph

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  Willy

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  Nina

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  Leo

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  Fifth son, Johnny, of Bangalore

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  Charly, a sketch of Captain the Hon. C. L. M. Fane De Salis (1821-1845)

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  Hadie, wife to Col. Chaloner Bisse-Challoner

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  Harry, seventh and youngest son, of Portnall Park, Virginia Water (died 1915)

Henrietta Foster (1785–1856) Jerome's 3rd wife.

Henrietta (Harriet), (1785–1856), daughter of Lord Bishop Foster, & 3rd wife to Jerome, Count de Salis.

Henrietta (Harriet) Foster, aka Countess de Salis (1785–1856).

Sons-in-law and daughters-in-law

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  Henriette

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  Cecile

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  Filgate

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  Augusta

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  Emily

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  De Tabley

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  Charlotte

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  Julia

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  Challoner-Bisse

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  Minnie (Grace)

Some events

_{His third wife's tiara}

• Appointed Deputy Lieutenant county Middlesex 9 April 1797.
• Commissioned as a lieutenant in the Loyal Uxbridge Volunteers (Corps of Yeomanry), 5 September 1803.
• In Armagh and Limerick settling Partition of estates with Lord Sandwich, September 1805 – February 1806.
• Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, December 1808. His proposers were:

• H J De Salis (his uncle);
• Chas Abbot (1st Lord Colchester (1757–1829);
• William Scott (Lord Stowell);
• Joseph Planta I (1744–1827, aetat suae 84), a cousin and fellow Grison. See the monumental inscription to him in St George's, Bloomsbury);
• George Pearson, MD (1751–1828);

Sixth son, Captain Charles (1821–1845) of the Scots Fusilier Guards.

• Selsey, (John Peachey, 2nd Lord Selsey (1749–1816)); and
• Edward Ash (c.1764–1829), MD, FCP. Physician Extraordinary to the King; editor of "The Speculator", Dublin, 1790; nephew of John Ash).^[2]

• Succeeds his father, 20 November 1807.
• Royal License to use title Count in the UK granted by George III, 4 April 1809.
• Appointed deputy-governor of county Armagh, 21 July 1809.
• He was appointed High Sheriff of Armagh in 1810.^[3]
• Rev. Dr. Henry Jerome de Salis, his uncle dies 2 May 1810.
• Patron of the new school at Mullavilly, Laurelvale, Ballylisk, Tandragee, county Armagh, 1811.
• Takes 21-year lease on Rokeby Hall, near Dunleer, from 29 April 1822, (550 pounds per annum).
• Royal License to use the name (& arms) of Fane before that of Salis, 1835.
• Ends his translation of all the extant works of St. Cyrillus of Jerusalem, 26 May 1835.
• Elected member of the Zoological Society of London, 1836 (probably).
• Recumbent figure made by Richard Cockle Lucas, for Harlington church, 1836.^[4]
• His house has five Carlton gardens, and it was sold with stables March 1845 for 12,600 pounds. The site is now occupied by BAE Systems.
• His widow lived at Dawley (near Hillingdon); the Continent; and after 1845 at Mivart's hotel and then its successor Claridge's.
• Recumbent figure made of his widow, Henrietta, by William Theed the Younger, for Harlington, 1856.

Royal Licence, granted to the count on 4 April 1809

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  _{Cover of Licence}

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  _{Page one of Licence}

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  _{Page two of Licence}

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  _{Page three of Licence}

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  _{Page four of Licence}

Pictures of Jerome, his three wives, a relevant family book, and one of his crests

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  _{a portrait bust of the count, c. 1817}

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  _{the Count's own copy}

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  _{Salis arms again, late 19th century}

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  _{Sophia Drake (his first wife), as depicted by Ralph Earl}

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  _{Penelope Freeman (his second wife)}

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  _{Hieronimus de Salis, c. 1816, with his third wife behind}

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  _{Bellona, a Salis crest on a silver entree dish of 1865.}

Detail of one of a pair of ormolu vases bearing the arms of Count de Salis impaling Foster.

Some Ancestors

Transcription of letter from Jerome Count de Salis to William Blackmore, December 20th 1833.

His brother

His brother John, circa 1815.

Jerome's younger brother: Graf Johann von Salis-Soglio-Bondo (1776 -1855).

Jerome's younger brother: His Excellency, Count Giovanni, aka Graf Johann von Salis, aka John, Count de Salis-Soglio-Bondo (Chiavenna 1776 – Modena 1855) of Bondo, Bregaglia; schloss Sulzberg, San Gallen (a Salis-Zizers house, sold on 2 June 1857 for 160,000 Franks); houses in Monstein and Avers; and the grafliche Salis house in Chur, L'Obere Spaniöl. He converted to Catholicism in Vienna, February 1813. Nearly 20 years later he married Grafin Emilia Elisabetha 'Luisa' (1804–1875), daughter of Feldzugmeister (Comte François) Graf Franz-Simon Fidelis Rudolf von Salis-Zizers (1777–1845), in Coire/Chur, July 1831 or 1832. She became a 'Sternkreuz-Ordens-Dame & Oberhofmeisterin' of the Modena Archduchesses Thereses and Beatrice von Oesterreich-Este. Educated in Chur and Chiavenna and then studying law at Göttingen, John was briefly at the London bar but went back to the Grisons to try to right the wrongs of Napoleon in the Three Leagues and Valtelline. After that he was a Grisons statesman: Bundespräsident of the Gotteshausbund (League of God's House) in 1811, 1813 and 1817; Landammann of the Bregaglia-Sopra-Porta 1816–26. Later he was an Austrian Privy Councilor and from 1836 Minister, 'grand-maitre de la cour', Principal Chamberlain of Their Royal Highnesses the Archdukes Francis IV and Francis V of Modena. A reactionary, supporter of the Ultras, and one of the founders of the 'comite de Waldshut', he was a correspondent with people like von Haller and Senft-Pilsach.^[5]

References and Notes

The Count's second son: Rodolph J. H. L. De Salis, (1811–1880). Later a full general and CB.

Photo of Sir David Wilkie's full length sketch of Lt. Rodolph De Salis (1811–1880).

Part of a silhouette of the Count, circa 1820–1836.

Daughter-in-law: Augusta (d. 1929), wife to Rodolph (1811–1880).

Maternal-grandmother: Katherina Barbara, (1711–1788), (daughter of Landshauptmann & Podesta Rudolfo de Salis-Soglio (Casa di Mezzo),(1652–1735), by Maria Magdalena v. Salis-Rietberg (1685–1764)), wife to Johannes v. Salis-Soglio (Casa Battista), (1707–1790). Her brother, Andreas, built the Neus Gebau in Chur.

• Quadrennial di Fano Saliceorum, volume one, by R. de Salis, London, 2003.

Daughter-in-law: Julia Shum, wife to his fifth son John.

Daughter-in-law: Charlotte MacDonald (d.1878), wife to Leopold (1816–1898).

• NOTES OF PAST DAYS, By Cecil and Rachel De Salis, Henley-on-Thames, 1939. (Printed by Higgs & Co., Caxton Works).
• 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.
• 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, Foreign Titles section, 1920, etc.
• Der Grafliche Hauser, Band XI [volume 11], Genealogisches Handbuch Des Adels, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn, 1983 (pps 331–356).
• The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: Being a Complete Table of All the Descendants Now Living of Edward III, King of England, by Marquis of Ruvigny & Raineval, Melville Henry Massue Ruvigny et Raineval, London : T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1907, (re-published by Genealogical Publishing Com, 1994).
• Mullavilly – Portrait of an Ulster Parish, by Brett Hannam, Lulu, 2010.