John de Salis, 9th Count de Salis-Soglio
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The Count de Salis | |
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Preceded by | John Eugène, 8th Count de Salis |
Succeeded by | John-Maximilian Henry, 10th Count de Salis-Soglio |
Personal details | |
Born | London | 16 November 1947
Died | 14 March 2014 Mezzane di Sotto, Veneto, Italy | (aged 66)
Nationality | UK/SOM/Swiss/Italian |
Alma mater | Corpus Christi College, Cambridge |
John Bernard Philip Humbert de Salis, 9th Count de Salis-
Life
An Imperial Count of the Holy Roman Empire (Reichsgraf), (created by letters patent dated Vienna, 12 March 1748 for Envoy Peter de Salis-Soglio (1675-1749), of Chur and Chiavenna, and his son Jerome (Naturalized British in 1731), by Emperor Francis I), John de Salis was the only child of Lt. Colonel John Eugène, 8th Count de Salis (1891-1949),[5] Irish Guards, by his Roman wife Maria Camilla (1926-1953), daughter of General Umberto Presti di Camarda by Teresa (d.1993), daughter of Filippo Nereo Vignola,[6] of Mezzane and Verona.
The grandson of the British diplomat, Irish landowner and Catholic re-convert Sir
He was educated at Downside School, read law at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (LLB (1972) and LLM), and was called to the Bar, Gray's Inn (1970). Later he was a tenant and then door-tenant, at 1 Brick Court, Middle Temple, EC4, and from 1972 lived at 12 First Street, SW3 and then from 1975 in two houses knocked together at 28 Upper Cheyne Row, Chelsea, SW3. Whilst in London he was also a member of the board of management of the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth.
Alongside learning and practicing the law he served in the
The combination of law of war, humanitarian instincts, soldiering and some family precedent (his father had been the Knight of Justice of the
On leaving England and moving to Switzerland he became a special officer in the Swiss Army's
In the meantime he had taken over his grandmother's 160 acre farm in the Valle di Buri, Mezzane di Sotto, and developed it from dairy to vineyard.
In addition to the above Count de Salis was a member of the British Association of the
He was next male representative of Charles, second and last Viscount Fane and Baron of Loughuyre (aka Lough Gur), and of Vice-Admiral Francis William Drake, of Hillingdon, sometime governor of Newfoundland (1752-4), younger brother of the last Drake baronet of Buckland Abbey, and thus heir-general of Admiral Sir Francis Drake himself. His only listed recreation was melancholia.[18]
Clubs
He was a member of the Cavalry and Guards Club, the Beefsteak Club, Cercle de la Terasse (Geneva), the Royal Bangkok Sports Club, and the Chelsea Arts Club.[19]
Family
He was firstly married to Samaritana Contessina di Serego della Scala (born 1950 in Verona, Italy), daughter of Dr. Cortesia Conte di Serego, on 20 January 1973. Months later their marriage was annulled and then dissolved in 1985. They had no children.
He then married (
- John-Maximilian Henry Fane de Salis, 10th Count de Salis-Soglio (b. 1986)
- Lara Anastasia Fane de Salis (b. 1995)
- Camille Charlotte Fane de Salis (b. 1995)
References
- ^ He is wearing the De Salis summer tie he designed (and had Dege manufacture).
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Gräfliche Häuser, Band XIX, 2009
- ^ "John Bernard Philip Humbert, 9th Count de Salis - Deaths Announcements". Announcements.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
- ^ Debrett's, People of Today, 2014
- ^ Burke's Irish Family Records, ed. Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, 1976.
- ^ Filippo Nereo Vignola was an amateur painter and dialect poet, as well as Podesta of Verona and Superintendent of the Museum of Castelvecchio in Verona and Vicenza
- ^ London Gazette: Count John Bernard Philip Humbert DE SALIS (494322), 9/12 L. to be 2nd Lt. (on probation), 8 June 1972. [published 2 January 1973]
- ^ London Gazette: Short Serv. Voluntary Commn. Lt. The Count John Bernard Philip Humbert DE SALIS (494322) 9/12L. from T.A.V.R., Group A to be Lt., 17 October 1977.
- ^ London Gazette: Capt. (Bt. Maj.) The Count J. B. P. H. DE SALIS, T.D. (494322), 9/12 L. retires 22 December 1988.
- ^ "People of Today Index, People of Today, People of Influence". Debretts.com. Archived from the original on 4 April 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
- Washington Postof 4 August 1982.
- ^ Extract from a letter to the editor of The Times, published 20 July 1983, in reply to an article by William Shawcross
- ^ Debrett's, People of Today, 2014
- ^ In 1995 he inherited the fourteenth century Nichesola house (Palazzo Somaglia-Stoppazzola/Palazzo Salis-Soglio) in Verona's Via Santa Felicita from his godfather Scipio, Conti Somaglia di Stoppazzola.
- ^ Fane de Salis MSS
- Pinot Nerofor his neo-Burgundian Monte Rugoli, with 80 acres for a while with the local agence Tenuta S. Antonio.
- ^ For Grisons envoy Giovanni Battista de Salis, the elder (1521-1597), of the Casa Alta, Soglio, invested by Pope Pius V, 11 April 1571, perpetuating an earlier investiture of 1568.
- ^ Debrett's, People of Today, 2014
- ^ Debrett's, People of Today, 2014
Sources
- "Obituary: John de Salis". The Daily Telegraph. 9 April 2014.
- Burke's Peerage, Foreign Noblemen / Foreign Titles sections: 1851, 1936, 1956, etc.;
- Debrett's Peerage, Foreign Titles section, 1920, 1925, etc.;
- Der Grafliche Hauser, Band XI [volume 11], Genealogisches Handbuch Des Adels, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn, 1983 (pps 331–356);
- Burke's Irish Family Records, ed. Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, 1976;