[Index]
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
Near Relatives of Charles Fane DE SALIS (1860 - 1942)
Relationship Person Born Birth Place Died Death Place Age
Grandfather Jerome Hieronimus Fane DE SALIS 14 Feb 1771 Chiavenna, Italy 02 Oct 1836 Hillingdon, Middlesex, England 65
Grandmother Henrietta FOSTER abt 1790 27 Oct 1856 66

Father in Law Thomas Augustus Wolstenholme PARKER
Mother in Law Mary Francis GROSVENOR

Father Henry Jerome Augustine Fane DE SALIS 16 Feb 1828 Pisa, Italy 18 Feb 1915 Virgina Water, Berkshire, England 87
Mother Grace Elizabeth Warner HENLEY abt 1824 Waterperry, Oxfordshire, England abt Sep 1898 Windsor, Berkshire, England 74

Self Charles Fane DE SALIS abt 18 Mar 1860 Fringford, Oxfordshire, England 24 Jan 1942 Taunton, Devon, England 81

Wife Mary Alice PARKER 28 Jun 1863 Sherborne, Oxfordshire, England 11 Jan 1930 Bristol, Gloucestershire, England 66

Daughter Dorothy Mary Fane DE SALIS 25 Jun 1897 East Brent, Somerset, England
Son Sydney Charles Fane DE SALIS 05 Aug 1898 East Brent, Somerset, England Nov 1991 Taunton, Somerset, England 93
Daughter Ruth Fane DE SALIS 15 Dec 1901 Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England

Brother Rodolph Fane DE SALIS 10 Dec 1854 Fringford, Oxfordshire, England 26 Dec 1931 Brackley, Buckinghamshire, England 77
Brother Cecil Fane DE SALIS 31 May 1857 Fringford, Oxfordshire, England 09 Mar 1948 Wargrave, Berkshire, England 90
Brother William Fane DE SALIS 21 Jul 1858 Fringford, Oxfordshire, England 23 Jan 1939 Gosport, Hampshire, England 80
Sister Georgiana DE SALIS 18 Sep 1861 Fringford, Oxfordshire, England 14 Apr 1910 East Hampstead, Berkshire, England 48

Son in Law John Savill PHILLIPS
Daughter in Law Daphne Gianetta GOTT
Son in Law Donald Frederick STOWELL

Grandson Living or Recently Deceased
Granddaughter Living or Recently Deceased
Grandson Living or Recently Deceased

Uncle Petrus Johannes Peter John DE SALIS 26 Feb 1799 Marylebone, London, England 24 Dec 1870 Acton, Cheshire, England 71
Aunt Henrietta Charlotte de Sennarclens DE ST DENYS Oct 1822
Aunt Cecile Henrietta Marguerite BOURGEOISE 1802 1892 90
Aunt Sophia Juliana DE SALIS 1806 05 Jul 1886 80
Uncle William FILGATE
Uncle Rodolph Johannes Leslie Joseph Hibernicus DE SALIS 09 May 1811 Dublin, Ireland 13 Mar 1880 Hillingdon, Middlesex, England 68
Aunt Augusta Letitia ROBINSON Jun 1839 Manchester, Lancashire, England 21 Feb 1929 Marylebone, London, England 89
Uncle William Andrew Andreas Salius Fane DE SALIS 22 Oct 1812 Marylebone, London, England 03 Aug 1896 Uxbridge, Middlesex, England 83
Aunt Emily Henriette MAYNE abt 1823 Teffont, Wiltshire, England 24 Jul 1896 Uxbridge, Middlesex, England 73
Aunt Catherine (Nina) Barbara DE SALIS May 1814 Dublin, Ireland 20 Feb 1869 St George Hanover Square, London, England 54
Uncle George Flemming WARREN 28 Oct 1811 19 Oct 1887 75
Uncle Leopold Fabius Dietagarus Fane DE SALIS 26 Apr 1816 Florence, Italy 20 Nov 1898 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 82
Aunt Charlotte F MACDONALD 1819 Dublin, Ireland 1878 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 59
Aunt Henrietta Maria Felicitas DE SALIS Nov 1817 Paris, France
Uncle John Henry Anthony Hubert Gubertus DE SALIS 10 Dec 1818 Paris, France 11 Feb 1894 75
Aunt Julia SHUM
Uncle Charles Lewis Maximilian Fane DE SALIS 04 Nov 1821 Valteline, Switzerland 25 Jun 1845 Pimlico, England 23
Aunt Henrietta (Hadie) Emma Helena DE SALIS 02 May 1824 Bath, Somerset, England 16 Aug 1863 Surrey, England 39
Uncle Thomas-Chaloner BISSE-CHALLONER 11 Dec 1788 26 Jul 1872 83

Cousin John Francis William DE SALIS 25 Aug 1825 Switzerland 07 Aug 1871 Uxbridge, Middlesex, England 45
Cousin Peter DE SALIS 22 Nov 1827 27 Mar 1919 91
Cousin George Aloys DE SALIS 01 Dec 1829 22 Oct 1866 36
Cousin Anna Sophia Elisabeth DE SALIS 28 Jul 1832 17 Mar 1916 83
Cousin Robert John Drake DE SALIS 13 Feb 1837
Cousin John Byrne Leicester WARREN 1835 1895 60
Cousin Meriel Leicester WARREN 1839 1872 33
Cousin Leoplod William Jerome Fane DE SALIS Jun 1845 Gundagai, New South Wales, Australia 03 Aug 1930 Laleham North Staines, England 85
Cousin Rodolph John Charles Fane DE SALIS 19 Nov 1846 Gundagai, New South Wales, Australia 06 Jun 1876 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 29
Cousin Henrietta Sarah Sophia Nina Fane DE SALIS 1848 Gundagai, New South Wales, Australia 20 Feb 1929 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 81
Cousin George Arthur Charles Fane DE SALIS 1851 Gundagai, New South Wales, Australia Dec 1931 Michelago, New South Wales, Australia 80
Cousin Henry Gubert Macdonald Fane DE SALIS 1858 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 1947 Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia 89

Niece Edith Margaret Fane DE SALIS 13 Jul 1882 St George Hanover Square, London, England 22 Jun 1932 Folkestone, Kent, England 49
Nephew Henry Edmund Challoner Fane DE SALIS 17 Jul 1891 Virgina Water, Berkshire, England 29 Sep 1913 Headington, Oxfordshire, England 22
Niece Adela Lucy DE SALIS 09 Oct 1893 Windsor, Berkshire, England 09 Jan 1894 Windsor, Berkshire, England 0
Nephew Edmund William Fane DE SALIS 31 Dec 1894 Virgina Water, Berkshire, England 21 Jan 1980 85
Nephew Jerome Joseph Fane DE SALIS 03 Jan 1896 Virgina Water, Berkshire, England 03 Oct 1915 Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England 19
Nephew John Peter Fane DE SALIS 15 Jun 1897 Hillingdon, Middlesex, England 21 Oct 1973 76
Nephew George Rodolph Fane DE SALIS 01 Jun 1898 Hillingdon, Middlesex, England 21 Jun 1917 Arras, France 19
Niece Barbara Grace Victoria Fane DE SALIS 20 Jan 1900 Hillingdon, Middlesex, England
Nephew Andrew Augustine DE SALIS 17 Jan 1901 Hillingdon, Middlesex, England Feb 1962 61
Niece Grace Dorothea DE SALIS 28 Feb 1902 Uxbridge, Middlesex, England 26 Feb 1977 74
Nephew Stephen Hercules DE SALIS 01 Apr 1903 Uxbridge, Middlesex, England 30 Aug 1934 Wokingham, Berkshire, England 31
Niece Judith Anna DE SALIS 10 Jun 1904 Uxbridge, Middlesex, England 1984 80
Nephew Cecil Ulysses Octavius DE SALIS 26 Oct 1906 Uxbridge, Middlesex, England 1976 70
Niece Rachel Penelope Fane DE SALIS 14 Apr 1908 Uxbridge, Middlesex, England 14 Dec 1996 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England 88
Nephew Arthur Register F DE SALIS abt Mar 1912 Uxbridge, Middlesex, England 24 Mar 2001 89
Nephew Rodolph Henry DE SALIS 25 May 1890 Virgina Water, Berkshire, England
Niece Ursula Eva DE SALIS 21 Mar 1892 Stoke Damerel, Devon, England
Nephew Anthony Fane DE SALIS 11 May 1896 Sheppey, Kent, England

Sister in Law Elizabeth Amelia PARKER 1846 26 Jan 1916 70
Sister in Law Evelyn Florence PARKER 1867 16 Mar 1957 90
Sister in Law Edith Louisa C ROUSBY abt Dec 1920 Windsor, Berkshire, England
Sister in Law Edith Dorothea MORGAN abt Sep 1931 Headington, Oxfordshire, England
Sister in Law Rachel Elizabeth F F WALLER 01 Jan 1868 Marylebone, London, England 06 Jan 1954 86
Sister in Law Eliza Jesser Jane COOPE 1865 Falmouth, Cornwell, England
Brother in Law Robert Abercromby HAMILTON 1937 Exeter, Devon, England
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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