page_title: Cecil Fane De Salis
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Cecil Fane De Salis / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Scan (by me, R. de Salis, Rodolph (talk) 23:44, 4 December 2014 (UTC)) of a page from the 1913 Report showing the committee of the Harlington, Harmondsworth and Cranford Cottage Hospital, Middlesex, c. 1913.
context_page_description: Sir Cecil Fane de Salis, KCB, DL, JP, of Dawley Court, Hillingdon, Uxbridge, Middlesex, was chairman of Middlesex County Council 1919–1924, and landowner in the parish of Harlington.
context_section_description: A nephew of William Fane de Salis and second of the four sons of Rev. Henry Jerome Fane De Salis of Portnall Park (the seventh son of Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio) he was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He became a barrister (Inner Temple, called 1881). 
  In March 1899 he was elected unopposed to Middlesex County Council to represent Stanwell. He was re-elected three times before unexpectedly losing his seat at the 1910 county council election. He was able to remain a member of the council when he chosen as a county alderman a few days later. He was Chairman of Middlesex County Council from 1919-24. In 1937 he retired from the county council when he did not seek re-election as an alderman.
  Chairman and owner of market gardeners H. & A. Pullen Burry, Ltd. of Sompting, West Sussex; he was a director of the Dawley Wall Gravel Pit in the parish of Harlington; JP (Middlesex, 1896–1938), chairman of the bench 1921–1931; Deputy Lieutenant (Middlesex, from 1918); High Sheriff (Middlesex, 1905). In 1931 he became a companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) and was made a knight (KCB) of the same order in 1935.
  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". He was vice-chairman (1912–1925) and then chairman (1925–1936) of the Middlesex Territorial and Auxiliary Force Association.
  Through Middlesex County Council he was closely associated with the mental hospitals at Harperbury and Shenley. He was also a governor of Uxbridge County School, aka the Bishopshalt School, now in Hillingdon.
  He was a member of the Union Club (site now home to Canada House, Trafalgar Square).
caption: Fane De Salis was for many years chairman of the Harlington, Harmondsworth and Cranford Cottage Hospital.
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