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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''.〔Der Grafliche Hauser, Band XI (11 ), Genealogisches Handbuch Des Adels, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn, 1983 (pps 331–356).〕 ==Family and early life in Chur and London== He was born on 8 July 1709 in Chur, capital of the Grisons, then an independent republic whose rule extended into present-day Italy, including the areas of Chiavenna and the Valtellina. He would be the only surviving son of Colonel Peter de Salis-Soglio (1675–1749), by his wife Margherita (1678–1747), daughter of Hercules de Salis-Soglio. His father, of a distinguished family,〔Salis's great-grandfather Antonio (1609–1682), with his brothers Rudolph and Friedrich, had bought the seigneurie d'Ober Aich and Engishofen in Thurgau on 10 June 1646. Their father was a Knight of the Order of San Marco (22 August 1603) and in turn his father had been invested an hereditary Knight of the Golden Spur on 11 April 1571 by Pope Pius V, ''omnibusque masculis eorum descendent in infinitum creatus''. Earlier the Venetians had also made him a (life) Knight of the Order of St. Mark.〕 had been a soldier in France, in the Dutch Republic and in England, where he became envoy of the Grisons Republic to the Court of St. James's during the reign of Queen Anne. There he became an Anglophile and made influential friends amongst the Hanoverians. On his return to Chur he resolved to send his son to London and Jerome De Salis became a naturalised British subject by private Act of Parliament on 24 March 1730/31.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/lords-jrnl/vol23/pp626-656 )〕 On 7 January 1734/35, de Salis married Mary Fane (baptised 18 September 1710), eldest daughter of Charles, the first Viscount Fane. Sir Luke Schaub, Lord Harrington and Lord Cobham were among signatories of the marriage settlement. They were to have four sons: Charles (1736–1781), who died at Hieres; Peter (1738–1807), who became 3rd Count de Salis; Henry Jerome (1740–1810) and William (1741–1750). De Salis was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 19 March 1741, proposed by Philip, 2nd Earl Stanhope (his wife's cousin), Martin Folkes (former president of the society), Andrew Mitchell, and his brother-in-law, Lord Sandwich.〔Their citation ran as follows:''Jerom de Salis Esqr. of London. A Gentleman of great merit & distinction, being desirous of becoming a fellow of this Honourable Society, we accordingly recommend him as a Person of Learning, well Skill'd in Philosophical & Natural knowledg, and every way qualified to be a usefull and valuable member of the Society.'' (‘Salis, Jerome de’ ), Library and Archive catalogue of the Royal Society.〕 (He may have introduced Sandwich to his native bresaola and hence help to associate his brother-in-law with the sandwich). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jerome, 2nd Count de Salis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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