Rodolphus de Salis

General Rodolph John Leslie Hibernicus De Salis,[1] (St. George, Dublin 9 May 1811; 27 Ashley Place, Westminster, 13 March 1880, buried Harlington, Middlesex), CB, OBE (1861), Légion d'honneur, and Order of Medjidie; of Dawley/Harlington, Middlesex; Dunleer, co. Louth; and Brackagh, Co. Armagh; Colonel of the 8th Hussars.[2]

Photo of Sir David Wilkie's sketch of Lt. Rodolph De Salis.

Second son of Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio, he was educated at Eton College, Heidelberg University and Oriel College, Oxford.[3]

Career

Cornet, 17 December 1830; Lieutenant, 28 June 1833; Captain, 13 July 1838; Major, 19 February 1847; Brevet Lt. Colonel, 28 November 1854; Lt. Colonel, 2 October 1856; Colonel, 20 March 1858.[4]

De Salis' full heraldic achievement, lowest part of an 1889 window by A. L. Moore, put up in his honour at S.S. Peter & Paul, Harlington, Middlesex. (De Salis; Fane; Le Despencer; Beaufort; Neville; and Beauchamp).

He fought at Alma, Inkerman, Balaclava, Tchernaya, Kertch, Sebastopol, Central India (& Rajpootana), Kotah ki Serai, Sindwaho, Delhi, Koondrye, Chundaree, Gwalior, and Boordah.[5]

Marriage

He married in Paris, 8 November 1875, Augusta Letitia Robinson, of 10 Marble Arch, London, (Manchester, 1839– Westminster, 21 or 24 February 1929), (widow of General Adolfus Derville, (1801–1874), Indian Army.[6] She died leaving effects worth £86,728.[7]

  • Rokeby Hall, near Dunleer, his parents leased this during his youth.
  • Rodolph J. H. L. De Salis.
  • M. le Colonel de Salis' photopass or CARTE DE SEMAINE, for the Exposition Universelle de 1867 A PARIS valable jusqu'au AVRIL 23.[8][9] Photograph probably by Camille Silvy.
  • Lt. General Rodolph. Photographed c.1870.
  • General Rodolph.
  • Rodolph in his sister-in-law's album.
  • Rodolph's Order of the Medjidie.
  • One of Rodolph's Crimean War medals.
  • De Salis' own Légion d'honneur medal.
  • Indian Mutiny Medal with Central India clasp belonging to General De Salis.
  • List of battles De Salis fought in, as seen on a monumental inscription in a Middlesex church.
  • His widow, Augusta (d. 1929).

References and Notes
  • Forgotten Heroes: The Charge of the Light Brigade, by Roy Dutton, 2007.
  1. His Baptismal names were: Rodolphus Johannes Leslie Hibernicus
  2. De Salis Family : English Branch, by Rachel Fane De Salis, Henley-on-Thames, 1934.
  3. Burke's Landed Gentry, edited by Peter Townend, eighteenth edition, volume one, London, Burke's Peerage, 1965, (pages 251–253).
  4. The Annual Army List, 1865, edited by Colonel H. G. Hart, published by John Murray, London.
  5. The Annual Army List, 1865, edited by Colonel H. G. Hart, published by John Murray, London.
  6. They married in 1863 (info from Geni).
  7. Info from Family Division, Holborn
  8. He stayed at the Hotel de normandie, rue Saint-Honoré.
  9. He was there to visit his brother, William's stand for the Australian State of Victoria.
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