Charles de Salis (bishop)

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Charles Fane de Salis (1860–1942), MA, DD (theol), was Bishop of Taunton from 1911 to 1930.

Biography

Born in Fringford, Oxfordshire on 18th or 9 March 1860 into an occasionally clerical family^[1], he was educated at Eton ^[2] and Exeter College, Oxford. Ordained in 1883 he was Curate at St. Michael's, Coventry, Vicar of Milverton, then East Brent ^[3] and Prebendary of Coombe before a 19 year stint as Suffragan Bishop of Taunton ^[4]. He died on 24 January 1942 and is commemorated in a memorial on the west wall of Wells Cathedral^[5]. His paternal grandfather (a pre-Tractarian) was Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio^[6]. William Fane de Salis was an uncle, Lord Bishop Foster a great-grandfather, and John Francis Charles, 7th Count de Salis-Soglio was a first cousin once removed. His names Charles and Fane were derived from his ancestor Charles, 1st Viscount Fane.

Family

He was the fourth and youngest son of Rev. Count Henry Jerome Augustine Fane de Salis, (born Pisa 16.2.1828, died Virginia Water 18.2.1915), of Portnall Park. He was educated at Eton c1841 and then Exeter College, Oxford (M.A.). Later he was a JP (for Surrey), and sometime chairman of Egham's Holloway Sanatorium, and of the Old Windsor Board of Guardians. Henry was Rector of Fringford, Bicester, Oxfordshire from 1852 until 1872 when he inherited Portnall Park, Virginia Water, Staines, Surrey from his brother-in-law, Colonel Thomas-Chaloner Bisse-Challoner (1788-1872) (High Sheriff, Surrey, 1838). He had married, on 29.3.1853, (Minnie) Grace Elizabeth Henley, (born 8.7.1823, died Virginia Water 28.8.1898), daughter of the Rt. Hon. Joseph Warner Henley, MP (he was part of Lord Derby's capable but infamous Who? Who? Ministry), of Waterperry House, Oxfordshire, by his wife Georgina (d.1864) (married 9 Dec. 1817), fourth daughter of John Fane (d.1824) of Wormsley, MP, by his wife Lady Elizabeth Parker (d.1829), daughter of Thomas, 3rd Earl of Macclesfield. Joseph Warner Henley's great-grandfather (Francis) came to England from Cork as a cabin boy and became a London waterman.

Three brothers and a sister

• Rodolph, (born Fringford, 10.12.1854, died 26.11.1931 (buried Virginia Water). Lived in Acton, Westminster and Barkeston gardens, Kensington. Civil engineer. He inherited Portnall Park in 1915 and sold it in 1924. He lived subsequently at Finmere house, county Buckingham, which was within five miles of where he was born. Educated at Eton and MA (Trinity Hall, Cantab); FGS; AMICE. Chairman of Singer Motor Company of Coventry; President of the Canal Association; chairman of the Grand Junction Canal Co.; Director North Staffordshire Railway; the Great Central Railway; and the Coventry Canal. Lieutenant in the Surrey Volunteer Regiment. His recreations were listed in Who's Who as motoring and golfing. A member of United University Club and Garrick Club. His cars had number plates DU 4726 and DU 6765. By his first wife, Edith, daughter of E. Edwards Rousby of Cottisford House, Northants, he had one daughter. He was photographed by Bassano in 1929.

• Sir Cecil, (born Fringford, 31.5.1857, died Wargrave 9.3.1948) (buried Harlington), of Dawley Court, Uxbridge, county Middlesex, which he inherited from his uncle William in 1896, he sold it in 1929; he lived later at Holly Cross House, Wargrave, Berks. (sold 1949). From 1889-1896 he lived at Portnall. Educated at Eton and MA (Christ Church, Oxon); barrister (called 1881); chairman Middlesex County council (1919–1924); chairman market gardeners H. & A. Pullen Burry, Ltd. of Sompting, West Sussex; JP (Middlesex, 1897); CB (1931); KCB (1935); Deputy Lieutenant (Middlesex, 1918); High Sheriff (Middlesex, 1905). Union Club (site now home to Canada House, Trafalgar Square). 14 children. His second but eldest surviving son Edmund lived his last 33 years at Bourne House, East Woodhay.

_{His brother William (d.1939)}

• Sir William, (born Fringford 21.7.1858, died Roche Court, north Fareham 23.1.1939). Admiral; KBE (1922), JP (Hants., 1914); MVO; Prussian Order of the Red Eagle (1904, ii classe); Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword (1916); Ogaden Somali expedition (1901). A member of the United Services Club (building and portraits now possessed by Institute of Directors. He lived at Brookfield, Alverstoke, Hampshire. In 1919 he was living at the Battine House, East Marden. By his first wife he had three children.

_{Sister: Georgie Hamilton (d.1910)}

• Georgiana (born Fringford 18.9.1861, died 14.4.1910 (buried Virginia Water)). She married, on 19.1.1888, Rev. Robert (Ro) Abercromby Hamilton, (died 1937); curate of Sunningdale, Berks.; vicar of Stoke Lyne, co. Oxon.; vicar of Cranbourne St. Peter, co. Berks., 1891-1910. MA (Oxon, St. John’s coll.). In later life his address was at Fairfield Lodge, Countess Wear, Devon. No issue.

Wife

Bishop Charles married, on 21.7.1896, Lady Mary Alice (28.6.1863 - 11.1.1930) daughter of Thomas Augustus Wolstenholme Parker, 6th Earl of Macclesfield, by Lady Mary Frances, daughter of Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster. They had two daughters and a son who died in 1991.

Notes

1. ^ His father was the Reverend H.J.A.Fane de Salis > "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
2. ^ “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 071363457X
3. ^ Vicar of St Mary’s, East Brent
4. ^ Episcopal Changes Resignation of The Bishop of Taunton The Times Thursday, Sep 18, 1930; pg. 12; Issue 45621; col C
5. ^ Memorial to former Bishop of Taunton unveiled The Times Monday, Mar 22, 1943; pg. 6; Issue 49500; col D
6. ^ http://genealogics.org/pedigree.php?personID=I00449973&tree=LEO (inaccurate)

Church of England titles
Vacant Title last held by William Finch	Bishop of Taunton 1911 – 1930	Succeeded by George Arthur Hollis

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Name	De Salis, Charles Fane
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Date of birth	1860
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Date of death	1942
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