Peter, 5th Count de Salis-Soglio
Peter John Fane de Salis,( 5th) Count de Salis- Soglio, Count of the Holy Roman Empire, DL, JP, G.C.J.J., K.R.E.( 26 February 1799 – 24 December 1870) was a mercenary soldier and landowner in Middlesex and the Irish counties Limerick and Armagh.
He was Bailiff of the English Venerable Order of Saint John of Jerusalem and Grand Prior of the Irish one.
He was also an hereditary Knight of the Golden Spur/ Eques Auratus and Papal Count Palatine of the Lateran.
" Petrus Johannes", Pierre Jean, was born in Marylebone, Westminster 26 February 1799 and died at Acton 24 December 1870( age 71).
Eldest son of Jerome, Count de Salis by his first wife Sophia Drake.
William Fane de Salis was a younger half- brother.
Rodolph Fane De Salis
Rodolph Fane De Salis,( Fringford, 10.12.1854- 26.11.1931( buried 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).
Sir Cecil Fane De Salis and Charles De Salis, Bishop of Taunton were two of his three brothers.
He was also a sometime Lieutenant in the Surrey Volunteer Regiment.
Lived in Acton, Westminster and Barkeston gardens, Kensington.
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.
His recreations were listed in" Who's Who" as motoring and golfing.
A member of United University Club and Garrick Club.
His cars had number plates DU 4726 and DU 6765.
John Francis Charles, 7th Count de Salis-Soglio
Sir John Francis Charles de Salis, 7th Count de Salis (19 July 1864 – 14 January 1939) was a British diplomat and landowner.
George De Salis
George Fane De Salis (1851 – 30 December 1931) was an Australian politician.
He was born on Darbalara Station near Gundagai to pastoralist Leopold Fane De Salis and Charlotte Macdonald.
He received a private education and then farmed at Tharwa and Michelago.
On 28 February 1878 he married Mary Galliard-Smith, with whom he had eight children.
He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Queanbeyan in 1882, but did not re-contest in 1885.
De Salis died at Michelago in 1931.
Leopold William Jerome Fane De Salis
Leopold William Jerome Fane De Salis( 12 June 1845 – 3 August 1930) was an Australian politician.
He was the son of Leopold Fane De Salis and Charlotte Macdonald; his brother George De Salis would also enter politics.
He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Queanbeyan in 1872, but did not re-contest in 1874.
He managed the family estates in Queensland until 1892, when they were lost in the economic crash.
In 1895 he married Jeanette Armstrong.
De Salis moved to England in 1910 and died in 1930 at Laleham.
Jerome, 2nd Count de Salis
Jérôme de Salis, 2nd
Count de Salis- Soglio( 8 July 17098 August 1794) was a Fellow of the Royal Society and sometime British Resident in the Grisons.
He was also known as" Hieronimus, Gerolamo, Geronimo, Harry, Jerome the grandfather" and" Monsieur le Comte de Salis".
William Andrew Salius Fane de Salis
William Andreas Salius Fane de Salis (27 October 1812 – 3 August 1896) was a businessman, colonialist, and barrister.
De Salis was the third son of Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio (d. 1836), by his third wife, Henrietta Foster (d. 1856).
Peter John Fane, Count de Salis was an elder half-brother.
William Foster Stawell was a first cousin, and the poet Lord De Tabley was a nephew.
Colonel Bisse-Challoner was a brother-in-law.
General Rodolph de Salis was an elder brother and the Rev. Henry Jerome de Salis
was his youngest brother and Rodolph, Cecil and Charles were nephews.
Born in St. Marylebone, Westminster, brought up in County Louth he was educated at Eton (1824–27); Heidelberg University (1828–29); and Oriel College, Oxford (1830–1834, Classics, 4th class).
He was called to the Bar, 30 January 1836; and was at 3 Brick Court, Inner Temple, by 1840.
He was appointed a revising barrister for Northamptonshire (1839), Nottingham and East Retford.
Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio
Jerome de Salis, Count de Salis- Soglio, DL, JP, FRS( 14 February 1771 – 2 October 1836)," Illustris et Magnificus", was an Anglo- Grison noble and Irish landowner.
Leopold Fane De Salis
Leopold Fabius Dietegen Fane de Salis, (26 April 1816 – 20 November 1898) was a Tuscan-born Australian pastoralist and politician.
Born in Florence to Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio and Henrietta Foster, he attended Eton College and studied sheep farming at Jedburgh in Scotland.
In 1840 he migrated to Sydney, where he formed a partnership to run a station at Junee.
In the same decade, in 1842, 1844 and 1848, his highly capable next elder brother William also sailed to Australia.
They did much business together.
In 1844 he married Charlotte Macdonald, with whom he had four children, two of whom
(George and Leopold) would later become politicians themselves.
In 1855 he sold out and bought the Cuppacumbalong station at Tharwa, later purchasing further property on the Murrumbidgee River.
In 1864 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Queanbeyan, but he did not re-contest in 1869.
In 1872 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council.
Around this time he also acquired property in Queensland, all of which he lost in the 1890s depression.
His daughter Nina married William Farrer in 1882 and they lived at Lambrigg, Tharwa, a property given them by De Salis.
In 1898 he left the Council bankrupt with significant debts.
He died at Tharwa later that year.
Henry Jerome de Salis
Henry Jerome de Salis, DD, FRS, FSA,( 20 August 1740 – 2 May 1810) was an English churchman.
He was Rector of St. Antholin in the City of London and Vicar of Wing in Buckinghamshire.
He was also known as:" Revd Henry Jerome de Salis, MA"; the Hon.& Rev. Henry Jerome De Salis, Count of the Holy Roman Empire;" Dr. de SalisRev. Dr. Henry Jerome de Salis", and, from 1809," Rev. Count Henry Jerome de Salis".

Question: Who is the paternal grandfather of George De Salis?
Answer: Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio