John Francis Charles, 7th Count de Salis-Soglio

Who was John Francis Charles, 7th Count de Salis-Soglio?

Sir John Francis Charles de Salis, 7th Count de Salis, KCMG, CVO was a British diplomat and landowner.

He was the elder son of Count John Francis William de Salis, a diplomat and renowned numismaticist of Hillingdon, by his wife Amelia Frances Harriet, eldest daughter of Christopher Tower, JP DL MP, of Huntsmoor Park, Iver, Buckinghamshire, and of Weald Hall, Essex, by his wife, Lady Sophia Frances Cust, eldest daughter of the 1st Earl Brownlow.Armorial Achievement from Fox-Davies, 1929Bourchier Tower, Lough Gur in 2005. Sometime in tenancy of the Baylee family. Described by Mary Carbery in The Farm by Lough Gur. Part of the Count's Irish estate, most of which was sold as part of the.

After Eton he was nominated an attaché in the diplomatic service 20 November 1886. He passed a competitive examination on 14 January 1887. On 12 June 1888 he was appointed to Brussels as an Attaché and promoted to third Secretary on 14 January 1889; thence...