William Fane De Salis (admiral)
William Fane De Salis.
Cabinet photograph of William Fane de Salis, RN, wearing one medal, as a Captain, circa 1900.
Vice-Admiral Sir William Fane De Salis, RN, (Fringford 21.7.1858, †Roche Court, north Fareham 23.1.1939),[1][2] KBE (1922); MVO (1904); JP (Hants, 1914); Prussian Order of the Red Eagle (1904, ii class); Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword (1916).[3]
HMS Russell. De Salis captained this ship from 31 July 1909 to 20 February 1911.
A nephew of William Fane de Salis and third of the four sons of Rev. Henry Jerome Fane De Salis of Portnall Park (the seventh son of the 4th Count de Salis), he entered the Royal Navy, HMS Britannia, in 1871;[4][5] served in the Niger (1886) and the Ogaden Somali expeditions (1901); naval ADC to Kings Edward VII and George V, 1909-1910; rear-admiral 1911; retired 1913; served as a captain in the Royal Naval Reserve's Yacht Patrol, 6 March 1915 – 1916;[6] Vice-Admiral, Head of Mission to Portugal, 9 June 1916.[7]
HMS Jupiter. De Salis was captain of this ship from 16 August 1906– 18 June 1907.
HMS Revenge. De Salis was captain of this ship from 1 September 1905 – 15 August 1906.
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HMS Gladiator. De Salis was captain, 13 March 1905-31 August 1905.
He served on the following: HMS Russell; HMS Jupiter; HMS Revenge; HMS Gladiator; HMS Blake; HMS Juno; HMS Mersey; HMS Scout; HMS Haughty; and HMTB 87.[8]
Marriages
Captain William de Salis, RN.
Eliza Jesser Coope (1867-1920), c. 1889.
- ∞ I. 14.5.1889, Eliza Jesser Coope, (Falmouth,[9] 1867, † Chichester, 29.10.1919), elder daughter of Captain William Jesser Coope,[10] of Claremont, Mayfield, Sussex, and Rouwkoup House, Rondebosch, Cape Colony;[11][12]
- ∞ II. St. Stephen Walbrook, London, 20.2.1924, Mabel Dorothy Rawstorne, of Roche Court, (20.3.1889, †Roche Court, Fareham, 15.1.1936),[13][14] daughter and heir of Henry Feilden Rawstorne (*1859-†24.6.1924) of Roche Court, north Fareham, Hants., England, (second son of Ven. Archdeacon Robert Atherton Rawstorne, (1824 - 1902), of Balderstone Grange, Lancs.),[15] by (∞1887) Mabel Katharina (†1892) only child and heir of Sir John Brocas Whalley-Smythe-Gardiner, 4th & last Bart. of Roche Court (†1868).[16]
Issue:
- Rodolph Henry, (Portnall 25.5.1890, † Sussex 1.6.1972), DSC; Deputy-Lieutenant (West Sussex); CBE; OBE; Dover Patrol and Heligo Bight; with Admiral Jellicoe 1919. Despatches (twice). Married, ∞Rosyth, 14.9.1920, Madelaine Marion Catherine Heath, (Malta ... 2.1892, † Up Marden 29/30.3.1978), daughter of Admiral Sir (Herbert) Leopold Heath, KCB, MVO. Madelaine served in No.8 Stationary Hospital Wimereux & B.R.C.S. motor ambulance convoy at Étaples.[17]
- Ursula Eva, (Stoke Damerel 21.3.1892, † Hampstead 22.11.1981), married, Frederic Newton Attwood, CBE (1941), of Burchetts, Milford, Surrey; (†Milford 21.10.1973); Rear-Admiral, RN 1904, served 1914-1918, & 1939-45.
- Antony, (Sheerness 11.5.1896, † Wentworth, Surrey, 6.1.1976), Captain, Royal Navy, DSO; (at Jutland); of Fair Winds, Virginia Water. Married, ∞ firstly, 3.10.1925, (Margaret) Honor Bindloss, (bapt. 1.5.1901, † ... 8.7.1926), daughter of Dr. (Major) Arthur Henry Bindloss, (*Russia 1864-?) physician & surgeon, of The Old house, Harrow-on-the-Hill; he married secondly, 10.9.1948, Phyllis Marion Dicks, (Portsea Island, 1900, † Virginia Water, 19.7.2002 (aged 102)).
References
- ↑ Buried East Marden, where he had Battine House
- ↑ Roche Court is now http://www.boundaryoakschool.co.uk/
- ↑ His brothers were Rodolph Fane De Salis, Cecil Fane De Salis and Charles Fane De Salis.
- ↑ Who's Who
- ↑ http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/William_Fane_De_Salis
- ↑ From Alistair Wilson, via the Kipling Society, 2007: On the yacht Iolaire, at this time based at Yarmouth, but working along the east coast, and in particular in the shepherding and protecting of the North Sea fisheries which continued to operate (but at a much reduced level, since most of the boats were in Admiralty service). Iolaire had belonged to Sir Donald Currie, the millionaire ship-owner who created the Union Castle line; when he died in 1909, it passed to his widow, who offered it to the Admiralty in 1914.
- ↑ Lieutenant 1882; Commander 1895; Captain 1901; Rear-Admiral 1911.
- ↑ http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/
- ↑ Probably Gyllyngdune Gardens.
- ↑ Late of the Royal Fusiliers, and a connection of Octavius Coope.
- ↑ Burke's Landed Gentry, edited by Peter Townend, eighteenth edition, volume one, London, Burke's Peerage, 1965, (pages 251-253).
- ↑ A He was a member of the United Service Club (building and portraits now possessed by Institute of Directors. He also lived at Brookfield, Alverstoke, Hampshire. In 1919 he was living at the Battine House, East Marden.
- ↑ ... after a very short illness
- ↑ Roche Court's telephone number was Fareham 9.
- ↑ Cousin of Atherton Rawstorne.
- ↑ In he 1930s Lady de Salis left Roche Court’s Brocas and Whalley-Smythe-Gardiner family portraits to her third cousin George, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, aka Viscount Brocas.
- ↑ http://www.jjhc.info/desalismadeline1978.htm (J.J. Heath-Caldwell).
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