Bulmer de Sales La Terriere

Fenwick Bulmer de Sales La Terriere (1856–1925) was a Colonel of the British Army, Knight of the Order of the Medjidie,[1] a member of the French nobility,[2][3] and an author.

Bulmer de Sales La Terriere
Born
Fenwick Bulmer de Sales La Terriere

Alstone, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
Died23 June 1925(1925-06-23) (aged 69)
London, England, UK
Occupation(s)Soldier and author
Years active1877–1925
ChildrenLieut-Colonel Howard Montague Bulmer de Sales La Terriere

He was born at Alstone Lawn in Gloucestershire,[4] educated at Eton College, Magdalen College, Oxford[5] and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.[6] He claimed to be descended from the French aristocracy, namely the Comte de Sales de Saint Salvy.[1]

He joined the army, serving in the 5th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, and later as Captain of the 18th Hussars. He gained the rank of Lieutenant-colonel. From 18 January 1902, he was an Exon of the King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard.[7][8]

In 1924, de Sales La Terriere's autobiography, Days that Are Gone, being the Recollections of some Seventy Years of the Life of a very ordinary Gentleman and his Friends in Three Reigns was published.[9][10] The autobiography received favourable reviews in The Times shortly after its publication.[11] De Sales La Terriere was a luminary of fashionable society at the time, although the Oscholars Library called his opinions of Oscar Wilde "conservative and rather naïve"[5]

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