Rodolph Fane De Salis


Rodolph Fane De Salis,, FGS, AMICE, civil engineer who was a director and then chairman of the Singer Motor Company of Coventry; President of the Canal Association; the last chairman of the Grand Junction Canal Co.; and director of the North Staffordshire Railway, the Great Central Railway, and of the Coventry Canal.
A nephew of William Fane de Salis and the eldest son of Rev. Henry-Jerome Fane De Salis, of Fringford and then Portnall Park, Virginia Water, the seventh son of the 4th Count de Salis, he was educated at Eton and. Sir Cecil Fane De Salis and Charles De Salis, Bishop of Taunton were two of his three brothers. He was also a sometime Lieutenant in the Surrey Volunteer Regiment.
, RA.
Lived in Acton, Westminster and Barkeston gardens, Kensington. He inherited Portnall Park, Virginia Water from his father 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.
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.

Marriages

He married firstly, Cottisford 27.6.1878, Edith Louisa Catherine, daughter of E. Edwards Rousby of Cottisford House, Oxfordshire, by Louisa Catherine, daughter of Major Johns, Royal Marine Forces, and had one daughter:
He married secondly on 20.12.1921, Edith Dorothea,, daughter of Canon T. Poole Morgan of Kilnagleary, county Cork.
His daughter Margery married:
of Edith Dorothea Morgan, aka Mrs Rodolph Fane de Salis.

Portrait

He was in 1929.
With his wife he was

Note

Do not confuse him with his first cousin-once-removed, Henry Rodolph de Salis, also known as Rodolph and involved with canals and civil engineering.