Leopold Fane De Salis

Leopold Fabius Dietegen Fane de Salis, (26 April 1816 – 20 November 1898) was a Tuscan-born Australian pastoralist and politician.

[1][2][3] Born in Florence to Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio and Henrietta Foster,[4] he attended Eton College and studied sheep farming at Jedburgh in Scotland.

In the same decade, in 1842, 1844 and 1848, his highly capable next elder brother William also sailed to Australia.

In 1855 he sold out and bought the Cuppacumbalong station at Tharwa, later purchasing further property on the Murrumbidgee River.

His daughter Nina married William Farrer in 1882 and they lived at Lambrigg, Tharwa, a property given them by De Salis.