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 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 ...

and Charlotte Macdonald; his brother George De Salis would also enter politics. He was elected to the

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for

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in 1872, but did not re-contest in 1874. He managed the family estates in

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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

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Desalis, Leopold William 1845 births 1930 deaths Colony of New South Wales people Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly