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- Henry Jerome de Salis, MA, DD, FRS, FSA,. Divine: Rector of St. Antholin, and Vicar of Wing. Also known as: Revd Henry Jerome de Salis, MA; Dr. de Salis; Rev. Dr. Henry Jerome de Salis, and, from 1809, Rev. Count Henry Jerome de Salis. He was the second of four sons of Jerome (Hieronimus), Count de Salis-Soglio by the hon. Mary Fane (ffane), eldest daughter of Charles, first Viscount Fane, by his wife Mary (1686-1762) daughter of the envoy hon. Alexander Stanhope, FRS, and sister of soldier-statesman James, Earl Stanhope (1673-1721). On returning from the Grisons in 1753 de Salis was sent with two of his brothers, Charles (1736-1781) and Peter (1738-1807), to Eton (he left c1757), after which he went up to Queen's College, Oxford, BA (1760), MA, DD (1777). He was ordained into the English Church in Ireland 1760. His uncle Lord Fane appointed him Vicar of Fedamore, co. Limerick in 1760, he retained the position until 1774/5. He was appointed a Chaplain in Ordinary to George III in 1763, and was Rector of St. Antholin, Watling Street from 1774 to 1810. His kinsman the fifth Earl of Chesterfield made him Vicar of Wing in Buckinghamshire in 1777. He remained there until his death in 1810. De Salis was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) 3 May 1770. His proposers were: Lyttelton; Jer Milles; Le Despencer; A. Shepherd; John Hunter; R Mylne; Er Saunders; Saml Wegg. He was a Justice of the Peace (JP) for Buckinghamshire and a subscriber to the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG). Salis was an executor of Rev. Thomas Monkhouse, DD, FSA, Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, who died in 1798. From Monkhouse it seems he inherited the Tate Gallery's (since 1909) version of William Hogarth's The Beggar's Opera. However, by 1817 it had passed to Thomas Bowerbank of Lothbury. Salis's parents appointed him Game keeper of and for their said manor of Dally otherwise Dawley, near Hayes, Middlesex, from 13 June 1775. In a letter to his father in Harley street, dated Oxford 24 September 1771 he describes 'Lord le Despencer's Festival at West-Wycombe': Lord le Despencer’s Music was incomparably performed, and what with the excellence of that, the fine weather and the Beauty of the place, every body went away enchanted. On Saturday a newly erected Temple of Bacchus was opened in the true antique Taste. The Statue of the God was crowned, and was invoked in Verse by the High Priest Montfancon and other Books of antiquities were consulted for proper Ornaments, with which Mr. Dance the Painter decorated the Bacchanalians. Our Pan and Silenus were inimitable, and indeed every Character was well supported. There were 3 or 4000 people present, and it really was a Fête worthy of Versailles.
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- Henry Jerome de Salis, MA, DD, FRS, FSA,. Divine: Rector of St. Antholin, and Vicar of Wing. Also known as: Revd Henry Jerome de Salis, MA; Dr. de Salis; Rev. Dr. Henry Jerome de Salis, and, from 1809, Rev. Count Henry Jerome de Salis. He was the second of four sons of Jerome (Hieronimus), Count de Salis-Soglio by the hon. Mary Fane (ffane), eldest daughter of Charles, first Viscount Fane, by his wife Mary (1686-1762) daughter of the envoy hon.
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