Charles de Salis

This article is about the count. For the bishop, a many times great-nephew, see Charles de Salis (bishop).

Letter from Charles to his father, 1771

Salis crest, Bellona

Das Altes Gebau in Chur. The house his grandfather built c1728

Charles de Salis, was born 25 July 1736 in the Parish of St. James, Westminster and died sine prole, Hieres, Provence, July 1781.

He was the eldest son of Jerome, Count de Salis-Soglio by his wife Mary, daughter of Charles, 1st Viscount Fane.

After some schooling with his younger brothers (Peter, Henry and William) in his father's ancestral homeland, the Grisons Republic, he was at Eton from 1747, where he was one of the c250 pupils there at the time. He travelled abroad 1757-1760, the tour included: Lausanne (university); Northern Italy; Rome; Naples; Coire; Paris; Turin; and Holland.

His maternal uncle, 2nd Lord Fane (an Opposition/Bedford Whig), had been one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for Reading 1754-1761. In 1761 de Salis stood in his place, but having been admitted a Freeman/Burgess of the Corporation of Reading on 4 March 1761 he was well beaten at the poll on 25 March 1761. De Salis had 258 votes, whereas the elected candidates polled 396 and 355.

Apart from returning to execute his uncle's will in 1766, he subsequently lived in Provence; at Arles, Salon, Nîmes and Hieres (also spelt: Hyères), where he died and was buried at the Convent des Cordeliers in 1781.

He seems to have shared with his mother, maternal-grandmother (Mary Stanhope), and to a greater degree his maternal-aunt a prediliction for the vapours. De Salis and his mother both received treatment from Dr. Pierre Pomme, of Montpellier university, author of Traite des Affections Vaporeuses des deux sexes, 1767.

Ancestors

Charles de Salis's ancestors in three generations

Charles de Salis	Father: Jerome, Count De Salis	Paternal Grandfather: Peter, Count de Salis-Soglio	Paternal Great-Grandfather: Antonio de Salis-Soglio
			Paternal Great-grandmother: Perpetua v. Planta-Zuoz
		Paternal Grandmother: Margherita v. Salis-Soglio	Paternal Great-Grandfather: Hercules v. Salis-Soglio
			Paternal Great-Grandmother: Maria Magdalena v. Salis-Seewis
	Mother: Hon. Mary Fane	Maternal Grandfather: Viscount Fane	Maternal Great-Grandfather: Sir Henry Fane, KB
			Maternal Great-Grandmother: Elizabeth Southcott
		Maternal Grandmother: Mary Stanhope	Maternal Great-grandfather: Hon. Alexander Stanhope
			Maternal Great-Grandmother: Catherine Burghill

References

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

printed (History of Parliament, GEC, VCH), manuscript & family knowledge