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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).〔Burke's Landed Gentry, edited by Peter Townend, eighteenth edition, volume one, London, Burke's Peerage, 1965, (pages 251-253).〕 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.〔''NOTES OF PAST DAYS'', By Cecil and Rachel De Salis, Henley-on-Thames, 1939. (Printed by Higgs & Co., Caxton Works).〕 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. ==Professional life== Fane de Salis visited Australia in 1842, 1844 and 1848 to pursue business opportunities in the Australian wool and other industries, then rapidly expanding. His younger brother Leopold Fabius Fane de Salis had migrated there in 1840. William became, with John Thacker, a partner in Thacker & Co, Jardine Matheson’s affiliated house in Sydney, but resigned from 1 July 1847. By 1848 he owned with Robert Towns a 345-ton barque, the ''Statesman''.〔(A trace of the barque. )〕 This they sold, March 1854, for $16,500, she having had an accident 'on her passage up to China from Sydney' trading sandalwood, tea pines... On his return to England de Salis joined the Grand Junction Canal Co in 1850 and held the following appointments: * Directorship of the Union Bank of Australia; * Director of the Australian Agricultural Co (AAco) and its offshoot the Peel River Land and Mineral Co Ltd; * Director of The Marine and General Mutual Life Assurance Society; * Director and later chairman of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company. He was a director between 1851–1895 and was elected chairman in 1878-1881; * Deputy-chairman then chairman of the London Chartered Bank of Australia from 1852 to 1874/80. 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「William Andrew Salius Fane de Salis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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