Rodolph de Salis

Quick Facts

A.K.A.

Rodolphus Johannes Leslie Hibernicus de Salis Rodolph De Salis Rodolphus de Salis General Rodolph de Salis Rodolph J. H. L. De Salis

Places

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Military personnel

Work field

Military

Gender

Male

Birth

9 May 1811 People who share this birthday

Place of birth

Dublin, County Dublin, Leinster, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Star sign

Taurus People who share this birthday

Death

13 March 1880 People who died on this day

Place of death

City of Westminster, Greater London, London, United Kingdom

Age

68 years

Family

Mother:

Henrietta Foster

Father:

Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio

Siblings:

Sophia Juliana Penelope de Salis Catherina Barbara de Salis Leopold Fane De Salis Peter, 5th Count de Salis-Soglio William Fane de Salis Rev. Count Henry Jerome Augustine Fane de Salis John Henry Anthony Hubert de Salis

Spouse:

Augusta de Salis Augusta de Salis (8 November 1875-)

Education

Eton College

Oriel College

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Biography

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

General Rodolph John Leslie Hibernicus De Salis ( 9 May 1811 - 13 March 1880), CB, OBE (1861), Légion d'honneur, and Order of Medjidie was a soldier who fought at many major battles during the nineteenth century.

Early life and education

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

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

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).

Marriage

He married in Paris, 8 November 1875, Augusta Letitia Robinson, of 10 Marble Arch, London, (1839–1929), (widow of General Adolfus Derville, (1801–1874), Indian Army.