Henry Jerome de Salis

Who was Henry Jerome de Salis?

Henry Jerome de Salis, DD, FRS, FSA, was an English churchman. He was Rector of St. Antholin in the City of London and Vicar of Wing in Buckinghamshire.

He was also known as: Revd Henry Jerome de Salis, MA; the Hon. & Rev. Henry Jerome De Salis, Count of the Holy Roman Empire; Dr. de Salis; Rev. Dr. Henry Jerome de Salis, and, from 1809, Rev. Count Henry Jerome de Salis.

He was the second of four sons of Jerome, Count de Salis-Soglio by the hon. Mary Fane, eldest daughter of Charles, first Viscount Fane, by his wife Mary daughter of the envoy hon. Alexander Stanhope, FRS, and sister of soldier-statesman James, Earl Stanhope.

On returning from the Grisons in 1753 de Salis was sent with two of his brothers, Charles and Peter, to Eton, after which he went up to Queen's College, Oxford, BA, MA, DD. He was ordained into the English Church in Ireland 1760. His uncle Lord Fane appointed him Vicar of Fedamore, co. Limerick in 1760, he retained the position until 1774/5. He was appointed a Chaplain in Ordinary to George III in 1763, and was Rector of St. Antholin, Watling Street from 1774 to 1810. His kinsman the fifth Earl of Chesterfield made him Vicar of Wing in Buckinghamshire in 1777.