Rodolphus de Salis

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

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

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.[1]

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.[2]

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.

References and Notes
  • Forgotten Heroes: The Charge of the Light Brigade, by Roy Dutton, 2007.
  1. Burke's Landed Gentry, edited by Peter Townend, eighteenth edition, volume one, London, Burke's Peerage, 1965, (pages 251–253).
  2. The Annual Army List, 1865, edited by Colonel H. G. Hart, published by John Murray, London.


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