Rodolph Fane De Salis

Rodolph Fane De Salis, (Fringford, 10 December 1854 - 26 November 1931 (buried in Virginia Water)), FGS, AMICE, civil engineer who was a director and then chairman of the Singer Motor Company of Coventry; President of the Canal Association; the last chairman of the Grand Junction Canal Co.; and director of the North Staffordshire Railway, the Great Central Railway, and of the Coventry Canal.

A nephew of William Fane de Salis and the eldest son of Rev.

Henry-Jerome Fane De Salis, of Fringford and then Portnall Park, Virginia Water, the seventh son of the 4th Count de Salis, he was educated at Eton and (Trinity Hall, Cantab).

He inherited Portnall Park, Virginia Water from his father in 1915 and sold it in 1924.

He lived subsequently at Finmere house, county Buckingham, which was within five miles of where he was born.

Rodolph with his wife Edith and daughter Margery, circa 1890.
Part of Singer & Company, Ltd, directors' report, 31 July 1917.
Portrait by George Spencer Watson , RA (British painter died in 1934).
Mrs. Rodolph Fane De Salis, aka Edith Rousby, circa 1880.
Margery Fane De Salis in around 1890.
Photograph of Edith Margaret, Margery or Marjorie, Fane de Salis, Mrs. Thomas Frederick Lock Whittaker (born 1882 died 1932).
Edith Rousby.