Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio

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Jerome de Salis (1771-1836), DL, JP, FRS, Comes SRI, Illustris et Magnificus.

Visionary, vegetarian semi-resident Anglo-Grison-Irish landlord.

Salis was the eldest surviving son of Peter De Salis by his third wife Ann, daughter of Bundespresident Antonio de Salis.

Hieronimus de Salis, c1816, with his third wife behind

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, Middlesex, and lies buried in Harlington-by-Heathrow, Middlesex.

In a letter of 1830 he proposed spending the winter in Madeira from 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.'

Salis was a friend of Samuel Wix (1771-1861), the pre-Tractarian 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.

He married thrice:

(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.
(2) 14 March 1807 (Stoke Poges): Penelope (d. 20 December 1807), daughter of Dr. Robert Freeman, MD, of Uxbridge.
(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.

Early life residences:

Chiavenna (1771-
Gottingen
Upper Seymour street (1791-94)
21 Portman Square (c1800-1808).

Penelope Freeman (second wife)

Bellona, a Salis crest on a silver entree dish of 1865

His children were born in:

St. Marylebone, Westminster (February 1799);

Langley, Bucks (December 1807);

Dublin (May 1811);

St. Marylebone, Westminster (October 1812);

Florence (April 1816);

Paris (November 1817);

Paris (December 1819);

Dublin (Dublin 1821);

Dublin (May 1814);

Bath (May 1824); and

Pisa (February 1828).

Some events:

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 (fellow Grison);
George Pearson, MD;
Selsey [John Peachey, 2nd Lord Selsey (1749-1816)]; and
Edward Ash

Succeeds his father, 20 November 1807.
Royal License to use title Count in the UK granted by George III, 1809.
Appointed deputy-governor of county Armagh, 21 July 1809.
High Sheriff of County Armagh, 1810.
Rev. Dr. Henry Jerome de Salis, his uncle dies 2 May 1810.
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.
His house 5 Carlton gardens, was sold with stables March 1845 for 12,600 pounds.
Recumbent figure made of his widow, Henrietta, by William Theed the Younger, for Harlington, 1856.

[edit] Ancestors

**Some of Jerome de Salis's ancestors**
Jerome De Salis _(1771-1836)	Peter De Salis _(1738-1807)	Jerome de Salis _(1709-94)	Peter (1st Count) de Salis-Soglio _{(Casa Antonio) (1675-1749)}
			Margherita v. Salis-Soglio _{(Casa di Mezzo) (1678-1747)}
		Hon. Mary Fane _(1710-1785)	Viscount Fane _(1676-1744)
			Mary Stanhope _(1686-1762)
	Anna v. Salis-Soglio _(1749-1830)	Giovanni de Salis-Soglio _(1707-90)	Battista de Salis-Soglio _{(Casa Battista) (1654-1724)}
			Anna de Salis-Samedan _(d.1738)
		Katherina Barbara de Salis-Soglio _(1711-88)	Rudolfo de Salis-Soglio _{(Casa di Mezzo) (1652-1735)}
			Maria Magdalena de Salis-Rietberg _(1685-1764)

[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.