Cecil Fane De Salis

Sir Cecil Fane de Salis, KCB, DL, JP, (31 May 1857 – 9 March 1948) was chairman of Middlesex County Council 1919–1924, and landowner in the parish of Harlington.

Henry Jerome Fane De Salis of Portnall Park, he was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.

He was called to the Bar from the Inner Temple in 1881[citation needed] In March 1899 he was elected unopposed to Middlesex County Council to represent Stanwell.

[9] During the First World War he sat for 449 days (from 25 February 1916) as one of the ten members of the Appeal Tribunal for the County of Middlesex, which he described: "This was sad work and many hard cases had to be dealt with, and often decided against the appellant".

[10] He married, on 3 September 1889, Rachel Elizabeth Frances Waller, (born 1 January 1868; died 6 January 1954), only child and heir of Edmund Waller VI or VII, and had 14 children (9 sons, 5 daughters), living firstly, 1889–1896, with his father at Portnall Park and then at Dawley Court.

Postcard of Cecil Fane de Salis, and his wife and 13 children, 1912.
Dawley Court, Goulds Green, on the border of Harlington and Hillingdon, Middlesex, c. 1890.
Photograph of Dawley Court in 1893.