Henry Rodolph de Salis

Henry Rodolph (Fane) de Salis (1866-1936)

1896 of Ivy Lodge, Iver Heath, near Uxbridge.

1922 J.P., Assoc.M.Inst.C.E., Chy-Morvah, St. Ives, Cornwall; b. 1866; second s. of John F. W. Count de Salis (d.), of Hillingdon Place, Uxbridge; m. 1893, May, eldest d. of Captain Robert Lambert (d.) of Weston, Thames Ditton. Ed. Eton College,1880-4; pupil of William Stroudley, Locomotive Superintendent, L.B. and S.C. Railway, 1884-7; Inspector, Locomotive Department, L.B. and S.C. Railway, 1887-90. Director, Fellows, Morton and Clayton, Ltd., Canal Carriers; Justice of the Peace for Bucks; High Sheriff of Bucks, 1915-6. Publications: " Bradshaw's Canals and Navigable Rivers of England and Wales."

1936 Died. 'Mr. Henry Rodolph de Salis, younger brother of the Count de Salis, was found dead on Tuesday morning at his home in Leamington. Mr. de Salis, who was 69, was well known in Birmingham business clocks as the chairman of Fellows, Morton and Clayton Ltd., canal carriers, and front 1911 to 1916 he was a member of the Thames Conservancy Board. In 1915 he was High Sheriff of Bucks. For several years Mr. de Salis resided at Iver Heath and took a keen interest in the welfare of the parish and church. At that time the late Rev. G. H. Culshaw was Rector. A civil engineer, he was a great authority on canal navigation, on which he had written several books. One of them was "Bradshaw's Canals and Navigable Rivers of England and Wales." Mr. de Salis in recent years gave valuable advice to various companies, which, with Government assistance, have developed the canal system of the country. He married in 1893 Mice Mary, eldest daughter of the late Capt. Robert Lambert, of Thames Dittos.'

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