Vice-Admiral Sir William Fane De Salis, RN, (Fringford 21.7.1858, †Roche Court, north Fareham 23.1.1939), KBE (1922); MVO (1904); JP (Hants, 1914); Prussian Order of the Red Eagle (1904, ii class); Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword (1916).
A nephew of William Fane de Salis and third of the four sons of Rev. Henry Jerome Fane De Salis of Portnall Park (the seventh son of the 4th Count de Salis), he entered the Royal Navy, HMS Britannia, in 1871; served in the Niger (1886) and the Ogaden Somali expeditions (1901); naval ADC to Kings Edward VII and George V, 1909-1910; rear-admiral 1911; retired 1913; served as a captain in the Royal Naval Reserve's Yacht Patrol, 6 March 1915 – 1916; Vice-Admiral, Head of Mission to Portugal, 9 June 1916.
He served on the following: HMS Russell; HMS Jupiter; HMS Revenge; HMS Gladiator; HMS Blake; HMS Juno; HMS Mersey; HMS Scout; HMS Haughty; and HMTB 87.
∞ I. 14.5.1889, Eliza Jesser Coope, (Falmouth, 1867, † Chichester, 29.10.1919), elder daughter of Captain William Jesser Coope, of Claremont, Mayfield, Sussex, and Rouwkoup House, Rondebosch, Cape Colony;
∞ II. St. Stephen Walbrook, London, 20.2.1924, Mabel Dorothy Rawstorne, of Roche Court, (20.3.1889, †Roche Court, Fareham, 15.1.1936), daughter and heir of Henry Feilden Rawstorne (*1859-†24.6.1924) of Roche Court, north Fareham, Hants., England, (second son of Ven. Archdeacon Robert Atherton Rawstorne, (1824 - 1902), of Balderstone Grange, Lancs.), by (∞1887) Mabel Katharina (†1892) only child and heir of Sir John Brocas Whalley-Smythe-Gardiner, 4th & last Bart. of Roche Court (†1868).
Issue:
Rodolph Henry, (Portnall 25.5.1890, † Sussex 1.6.1972), DSC; Deputy-Lieutenant (West Sussex); CBE; OBE; Dover Patrol and Heligo Bight; with Admiral Jellicoe 1919. Despatches (twice). Married, ∞Rosyth, 14.9.1920, Madelaine Marion Catherine Heath, (Malta ... 2.1892, † Up Marden 29/30.3.1978), daughter of Admiral Sir (Herbert) Leopold Heath, KCB, MVO. Madelaine served in No.8 Stationary Hospital Wimereux & B.R.C.S. motor ambulance convoy at Étaples.
Ursula Eva, (Stoke Damerel 21.3.1892, † Hampstead 22.11.1981), married, Frederic Newton Attwood, CBE (1941), of Burchetts, Milford, Surrey; (†Milford 21.10.1973); Rear-Admiral, RN 1904, served 1914-1918, & 1939-45.
Antony, (Sheerness 11.5.1896, † Wentworth, Surrey, 6.1.1976), Captain, Royal Navy, DSO; (at Jutland); of Fair Winds, Virginia Water. Married, ∞ firstly, 3.10.1925, (Margaret) Honor Bindloss, (bapt. 1.5.1901, † ... 8.7.1926), daughter of Dr. (Major) Arthur Henry Bindloss, (*Russia 1864-?) physician & surgeon, of The Old house, Harrow-on-the-Hill; he married secondly, 10.9.1948, Phyllis Marion Dicks, (Portsea Island, 1900, † Virginia Water, 19.7.2002 (aged 102)).
