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Charles Fane DE SALIS (1860 - 1942)
Bishop of Taunton
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
Dorothy Mary Fane DE SALIS (1897 - )
Sydney Charles Fane DE SALIS (1898 - 1991)
Ruth Fane DE SALIS (1901 - )
Charles Fane DE SALIS (1860 - 1942)

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Mary Alice PARKER (1863 - 1930)
Henry Jerome Augustine Fane DE SALIS (1828 - 1915) Jerome Hieronimus Fane DE SALIS (1771 - 1836) Peter DE SALIS (1738 - 1809)
Ann DE SALIS-SOGLIO (1749 - 1831)
Henrietta FOSTER (1790 - 1856) William FOSTER (1744 - 1797)
Catherine Letitia LESLIE ( - 1814)
Grace Elizabeth Warner HENLEY (1824 - 1898)












b. abt 18 Mar 1860 at Fringford, Oxfordshire, England
m. 21 Jul 1896 Mary Alice PARKER (1863 - 1930) at St George Hanover Square, London, England
d. 24 Jan 1942 at Taunton, Devon, England aged 81
Parents:
Henry Jerome Augustine Fane DE SALIS (1828 - 1915)
Grace Elizabeth Warner HENLEY (1824 - 1898)
Siblings (4):
Rodolph Fane DE SALIS (1854 - 1931)
Cecil Fane DE SALIS (1857 - 1948)
William Fane DE SALIS (1858 - 1939)
Georgiana DE SALIS (1861 - 1910)
Children (3):
Dorothy Mary Fane DE SALIS (1897 - )
Sydney Charles Fane DE SALIS (1898 - 1991)
Ruth Fane DE SALIS (1901 - )
Grandchildren (3):
Events in Charles Fane DE SALIS (1860 - 1942)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
abt 18 Mar 1860 Charles Fane DE SALIS was born Fringford, Oxfordshire, England Note 1
1871 11 Census Fringford, Oxfordshire, England
1881 21 Census Egham, Surrey, England
21 Jul 1896 36 Married Mary Alice PARKER (aged 33) St George Hanover Square, London, England Free BMD Sep 1896 1a 912
25 Jun 1897 37 Birth of daughter Dorothy Mary Fane DE SALIS East Brent, Somerset, England Note 2
05 Aug 1898 38 Birth of son Sydney Charles Fane DE SALIS East Brent, Somerset, England Note 3
abt Sep 1898 38 Death of mother Grace Elizabeth Warner HENLEY (aged 74) Windsor, Berkshire, England Note 4
1901 41 Census Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England
15 Dec 1901 41 Birth of daughter Ruth Fane DE SALIS Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England Note 5
18 Feb 1915 54 Death of father Henry Jerome Augustine Fane DE SALIS (aged 87) Virgina Water, Berkshire, England Note 6
11 Jan 1930 69 Death of wife Mary Alice PARKER (aged 66) Bristol, Gloucestershire, England Free BMD Mar 1930 Bristol 6a 6
24 Jan 1942 81 Charles Fane DE SALIS died Taunton, Devon, England Note 7
Note 1: Free BMD Jun 1860 Bichester 3a 558
Note 2: Free BMD Sep 1897 Axbridge 5c 457
Note 3: Free BMD Sep 1898 Axbridge 5c 482
Note 4: Free BMD Sep 1898 Windsor 2c 261
Note 5: Free BMD Mar 1901 Axbridge 5c 431
Note 6: Free BMD Mary 1915 Windsor 2c 759
Note 7: Free BMD Mar 1942 Taunton 5c 625
Personal Notes:
Charles Fane de Salis (1860–1942), MA, DD (theol), was Bishop of Taunton from 1911 to 1930.

Biography
Born in Fringford, Oxfordshire on 18th or 9 March 1860 into an occasionally clerical family[1], he was educated at Eton and Exeter College, Oxford. Ordained in 1883 he was Curate at St. Michael's, Coventry, Vicar of Milverton, then East Brent and Prebendary of Coombe before a 19 year stint as Suffragan Bishop of Taunton. He died on 24 January 1942 and is commemorated in a memorial on the west wall of Wells Cathedral. His paternal grandfather (a pre-Tractarian) was Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio[6]. William Fane de Salis was an uncle, Lord Bishop Foster a great-grandfather, and John Francis Charles, 7th Count de Salis-Soglio was a first cousin once removed. His names Charles and Fane were derived from his ancestor Charles, 1st Viscount Fane.

Family
He was the fourth and youngest son of Rev. Count Henry Jerome Augustine Fane de Salis, (born Pisa 16.2.1828, died Virginia Water 18.2.1915), of Portnall Park. He was educated at Eton c1841 and then Exeter College, Oxford (M.A.). Later he was a JP (for Surrey), and sometime chairman of Egham's Holloway Sanatorium, and of the Old Windsor Board of Guardians. Henry was Rector of Fringford, Bicester, Oxfordshire from 1852 until 1872 when he inherited Portnall Park, Virginia Water, Staines, Surrey from his brother-in-law, Colonel Thomas-Chaloner Bisse-Challoner (1788-1872) (High Sheriff, Surrey, 1838). He had married, on 29.3.1853, (Minnie) Grace Elizabeth Henley, (born 8.7.1823, died Virginia Water 28.8.1898), daughter of the Rt. Hon. Joseph Warner Henley, MP (he was part of Lord Derby's capable but infamous Who? Who? Ministry), of Waterperry House, Oxfordshire, by his wife Georgina (d.1864) (married 9 Dec. 1817), fourth daughter of John Fane (d.1824) of Wormsley, MP, by his wife Lady Elizabeth Parker (d.1829), daughter of Thomas, 3rd Earl of Macclesfield. Joseph Warner Henley's great-grandfather (Francis) came to England from Cork as a cabin boy and became a London waterman.

Three brothers and a sister
Rodolph, (born Fringford, 10.12.1854, died 26.11.1931 (buried Virginia Water). Lived in Acton, Westminster and Barkeston gardens, Kensington. Civil engineer. He inherited Portnall Park 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. Educated at Eton and MA (Trinity Hall, Cantab); FGS; AMICE. Chairman of Singer Motor Company of Coventry; President of the Canal Association; chairman of the Grand Junction Canal Co.; Director North Staffordshire Railway; the Great Central Railway; and the Coventry Canal. Lieutenant in the Surrey Volunteer Regiment. 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. By his first wife, Edith, daughter of E. Edwards Rousby of Cottisford House, Northants, he had one daughter. He was photographed by Bassano in 1929.

Sir Cecil, (born Fringford, 31.5.1857, died Wargrave 9.3.1948) (buried Harlington), of Dawley Court, Uxbridge, county Middlesex, which he inherited from his uncle William in 1896, he sold it in 1929; he lived later at Holly Cross House, Wargrave, Berks. (sold 1949). From 1889-1896 he lived at Portnall. Educated at Eton and MA (Christ Church, Oxon); barrister (called 1881); chairman Middlesex County council (1919–1924); chairman market gardeners H. & A. Pullen Burry, Ltd. of Sompting, West Sussex; JP (Middlesex, 1897); CB (1931); KCB (1935); Deputy Lieutenant (Middlesex, 1918); High Sheriff (Middlesex, 1905). Union Club (site now home to Canada House, Trafalgar Square). 14 children. His second but eldest surviving son Edmund lived his last 33 years at Bourne House, East Woodhay.

Sir William, (born Fringford 21.7.1858, died Roche Court, north Fareham 23.1.1939). Admiral; KBE (1922), JP (Hants., 1914); MVO; Prussian Order of the Red Eagle (1904, ii classe); Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword (1916); Ogaden Somali expedition (1901). A member of the United Services Club (building and portraits now possessed by Institute of Directors. He lived at Brookfield, Alverstoke, Hampshire. In 1919 he was living at the Battine House, East Marden. By his first wife he had three children.

Georgiana (born Fringford 18.9.1861, died 14.4.1910 (buried Virginia Water)). She married, on 19.1.1888, Rev. Robert (Ro) Abercromby Hamilton, (died 1937); curate of Sunningdale, Berks.; vicar of Stoke Lyne, co. Oxon.; vicar of Cranbourne St. Peter, co. Berks., 1891-1910. MA (Oxon, St. John’s coll.). In later life his address was at Fairfield Lodge, Countess Wear, Devon. No issue.

[edit] Wife

Bishop Charles married, on 21.7.1896, Lady Mary Alice (28.6.1863 - 11.1.1930) daughter of Thomas Augustus Wolstenholme Parker, 6th Earl of Macclesfield, by Lady Mary Frances, daughter of Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster. They had two daughters and a son who died in 1991.

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