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Sir Cecil Fane de Salis (31 May 1857 - 9 March 1948) was a barrister and local politician.

The son of the Rev. Henry Jerome Augustine Fane de Salis and Grace Elizabeth née Henley.

Educated at Eton and Oxford, he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1882. He became a justice of the peace for the County of Middlesex and was High Sheriff of Middlesex in 1905.

In March 1899 he was elected unopposed to Middlesex County Council to represent Stanwell.[1] He was re-elected three times before unexpectedly losing his seat at the 1910 county council election.[2] He was able to remain a member of the council when he chosen as a county alderman a few days later.[3] He was Chairman of Middlesex County Council from 1919-24.[4] In 1937 he retired from the county council when he did not seek re-election as an alderman.[5]

He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1935.

  1. Middlesex and Surrey Express, 11 March 1899
  2. Uxbridge and West Drayton Gazette, 5 March 1910
  3. Ealing and West Middlesex Observer, 12 March 1910
  4. The County Council of the Administrative County of Middlesex. Middlesex County Council. 1965. p. 47. 
  5. Middlesex County Times, 27 February 1927

More information on the Wikipedia page [1]

For his uncle, William Fane de Salis, who left him Dawley Court see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fane_de_Salis_(businessman)].

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