Henry Jerome de Salis
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Henry Jerome de Salis, MA, DD, FRS, FSA
, (20 August 1740 - 2 May 1810) was an English churchman. He was Rector of St. Antholin, and Vicar of Wing.
He was 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 (SPCK
), 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
':
family (d. 18 January 1819, at Hanwell), second daughter and co-heir of Solomon Stephen Blosset of Dublin & Meath (grandson of Salomon Blosset de Loche
), by his wife Elizabeth Dorothy Le Coq St. Leger, from Trunkwell House, Beech Hill, Berkshire. Harriet Blosset was the girl who in 1768 had been led to believe by Sir Joseph Banks
(1743-1820) that he would marry her on his return from his journey with Cook
on the Endeavour. They returned in June 1771 but Banks's previous affections had been shot by three years of Orientals
; compensation was paid.
Meanwhile, Harriet's elder sister, Bella, had married Rev. Henry Peckwell
(1747-1787), clerk of St. James, Westminster, in the spring of 1773. Their daughter, Selina, was the mother of the historian George Grote
.
His only child, a daughter Henrietta, was born in June 1779, and died 31 March 1785, in Dover Street, Westminster. Having died on the same day as her paternal grandmother she was buried simultaneously with her in the family vault at Harlington-under-Heathrow, Middlesex
, a church that is both close to Heathrow airport
and clearly visible from the M4
.
Salis had fallen out with his elder brother Peter after their father's death in 1794, relations however were restored with his sons, the elder nephew Jerome
in particular.
Society of Antiquaries of London
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, (20 August 1740 - 2 May 1810) was an English churchman. He was Rector of St. Antholin, and Vicar of Wing.
He was 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.
Jerome, 2nd Count de Salis
Jérôme de Salis, 2nd Count de Salis-Soglio was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and sometime British Resident in the Grisons...
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
James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope
James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope PC was a British statesman and soldier who effectively served as Chief Minister between 1717 and 1721. He is probably best remembered for his service during War of the Spanish Succession...
(1673-1721).
On returning from the Grisons in 1753 de Salis was sent with two of his brothers, Charles (1736-1781) and Peter
Peter, 3rd Count de Salis
Peter de Salis, Count of the Holy Roman Empire Peter de Salis, Count of the Holy Roman Empire (Nobile Signor Don Pietro Podesta di Salis) Peter de Salis, Count of the Holy Roman Empire (Nobile Signor Don Pietro Podesta di Salis) (28 June 1738, parish of St. James, Westminster -...
(1738-1807), to Eton
Eton College
Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"....
(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
Church of Ireland
The Church of Ireland is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion. The church operates in all parts of Ireland and is the second largest religious body on the island after the Roman Catholic Church...
1760. His uncle Lord Fane
Charles Fane, 2nd Viscount Fane
Charles Fane, 2nd Viscount Fane was a landowner in Ireland and England, a Whig Member of Parliament and the British Resident in Florence.-Early life:...
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
Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield
Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield KG, PC, FRS, FSA , known as Philip Stanhope until 1773, was a British politician and diplomat...
made him Vicar of Wing
Wing, Buckinghamshire
Wing is a village and civil parish in Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. The village is on the main A418 road between Aylesbury and Leighton Buzzard...
in Buckinghamshire in 1777. He remained there until his death in 1810.
Lyttelton
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton PC , known as Sir George Lyttelton, Bt between 1751 and 1756, was a British politician and statesman and a patron of the arts.-Background and education:...
; Jer Milles; Le Despencer
Francis Dashwood, 15th Baron le Despencer
Francis Dashwood, 15th Baron le Despencer was an English rake and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer and founder of the Hellfire Club.-Early life:...
; A. Shepherd; John Hunter
John Hunter (surgeon)
John Hunter FRS was a Scottish surgeon regarded as one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. He was an early advocate of careful observation and scientific method in medicine. The Hunterian Society of London was named in his honour...
; R Mylne; Er Saunders; Saml Wegg. He was a Justice of the Peace
Justice of the Peace
A justice of the peace is a puisne judicial officer elected or appointed by means of a commission to keep the peace. Depending on the jurisdiction, they might dispense summary justice or merely deal with local administrative applications in common law jurisdictions...
(JP) for Buckinghamshire and a subscriber to the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge (SPCK
SPCK
The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge is the oldest Anglican mission organisation. It was founded in 1698 by Thomas Bray , and a small group of friends. The most important early leaders were Anton Wilhelm Boehm and court preacher Friedrich Michael Ziegenhagen...
), 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
William Hogarth
William Hogarth was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects"...
The Beggar's Opera
The Beggar's Opera
The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch. It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today...
. 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
West Wycombe Park
West Wycombe Park is a country house near the village of West Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England, built between 1740 and 1800. It was conceived as a pleasure palace for the 18th century libertine and dilettante Sir Francis Dashwood, 2nd Baronet. The house is a long rectangle with four façades that...
':
- 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. DanceNathaniel Dance-HollandSir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, 1st Baronet was a notable English portrait painter and later a politician.The third son of architect George Dance the Elder, Dance studied art under Francis Hayman, and like many contemporaries also studied in Italy...
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.
Marriage
He married at St. Antholin, 17 November 1775, Miss Julia Henrietta "Harriet" Blosset from a well connected huguenotHuguenot
The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 17th century, people who formerly would have been called Huguenots have instead simply been called French Protestants, a title suggested by their German co-religionists, the...
family (d. 18 January 1819, at Hanwell), second daughter and co-heir of Solomon Stephen Blosset of Dublin & Meath (grandson of Salomon Blosset de Loche
Salomon Blosset de Loche
Brigadier-General Salomon de Blosset, Seigneur de Loche was a Huguenot army officer.Born in the Dauphiné to Paul de Blosset, Seigneur des Eissarts, from a family of Huguenots who had left their original home of the Nivernais during the French Wars of Religion Brigadier-General Salomon de Blosset,...
), by his wife Elizabeth Dorothy Le Coq St. Leger, from Trunkwell House, Beech Hill, Berkshire. Harriet Blosset was the girl who in 1768 had been led to believe by Sir Joseph Banks
Joseph Banks
Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS was an English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. He took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage . Banks is credited with the introduction to the Western world of eucalyptus, acacia, mimosa and the genus named after him,...
(1743-1820) that he would marry her on his return from his journey with Cook
James Cook
Captain James Cook, FRS, RN was a British explorer, navigator and cartographer who ultimately rose to the rank of captain in the Royal Navy...
on the Endeavour. They returned in June 1771 but Banks's previous affections had been shot by three years of Orientals
The Orient
The Orient means "the East." It is a traditional designation for anything that belongs to the Eastern world or the Far East, in relation to Europe. In English it is a metonym that means various parts of Asia.- Derivation :...
; compensation was paid.
Meanwhile, Harriet's elder sister, Bella, had married Rev. Henry Peckwell
Henry Peckwell
Henry Peckwell was an English clergyman of Methodist views.-Life:He was the son of Henry Peckwell of Chichester. About 1764 he entered the house of an Italian silk merchant in London, with the intention of representing the firm in Italy...
(1747-1787), clerk of St. James, Westminster, in the spring of 1773. Their daughter, Selina, was the mother of the historian George Grote
George Grote
George Grote was an English classical historian, best known in the field for a major work, the voluminous History of Greece, still read.-Early life:He was born at Clay Hill near Beckenham in Kent...
.
His only child, a daughter Henrietta, was born in June 1779, and died 31 March 1785, in Dover Street, Westminster. Having died on the same day as her paternal grandmother she was buried simultaneously with her in the family vault at Harlington-under-Heathrow, Middlesex
Harlington, London
Harlington is a suburban area in the London Borough of Hillingdon, on the northern perimeter of London Heathrow Airport. It is situated west of Charing Cross.-Etymology:...
, a church that is both close to Heathrow airport
London Heathrow Airport
London Heathrow Airport or Heathrow , in the London Borough of Hillingdon, is the busiest airport in the United Kingdom and the third busiest airport in the world in terms of total passenger traffic, handling more international passengers than any other airport around the globe...
and clearly visible from the M4
M4 motorway
The M4 motorway links London with South Wales. It is part of the unsigned European route E30. Other major places directly accessible from M4 junctions are Reading, Swindon, Bristol, Newport, Cardiff and Swansea...
.
Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio
Jerome de Salis, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio DL, JP, FRS , Illustris et Magnificus was an Anglo-Grison-Irish noble, visionary, vegetarian and landowner....
in particular.
Ancestors
| Rev. Dr. Henry Jerome de Salis | Father: Jerome, Count De Salis Jerome, 2nd Count de Salis Jérôme de Salis, 2nd Count de Salis-Soglio was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and sometime British Resident in the Grisons... |
Paternal Grandfather: Peter, Count de Salis-Soglio |
Paternal Great-Grandfather: Antonio de Salis-Soglio |
| Paternal Great-grandmother: Perpetua v. Planta-Zuoz Zuoz Zuoz is a municipality in the district of Maloja in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.-History:Zuoz is first mentioned about 840 as Zuzes. Historically, Zuoz was the political center of the upper Engadin. It was the seat of the local bishop. But, it has long ago been supplanted by other Engadin... |
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| Paternal Grandmother: Margherita v. Salis-Soglio |
Paternal Great-Grandfather: Hercules v. Salis-Soglio |
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| Paternal Great-Grandmother: Maria Magdalena v. Salis-Seewis |
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| Mother: Hon. Mary Fane |
Maternal Grandfather: Viscount Fane |
Maternal Great-Grandfather: Sir Henry Fane, KB |
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| Maternal Great-Grandmother: Elizabeth Southcott |
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| Maternal Grandmother: Mary Stanhope |
Maternal Great-grandfather: Hon. Alexander Stanhope |
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| Maternal Great-Grandmother: Catherine Burghill |