Career
She later went on to train as a nurse They moved to Melksham, Wiltshire, in 1947 and joined the local Labour Party soon after that. In 1954, Salisbury was elected to the former Melksham Urban District Council, and later to Wiltshire County Council.
In 1960 she became a Justice of the Peace for Wiltshire.
In 1982 she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to local government, and in January 1983 was Gazetted a Deputy Lieutenant for Wiltshire, together with Lord Margadale. When the Conservatives lost control of Wiltshire County Council in 1985, leaving behind them a hung council, Salisbury commented to The Times that there was virtually nothing which she opposed in Jack Ainslie"s plan for a new Liberal-Social Democratic Party administration and almost nothing on which she agreed with the defeated Conservatives.
"Where the Liberals put forward measures which seem to be beneficial to the people of Wiltshire, we will support them", she said. With the council remaining hung, she went on to become the first woman Chairman of Council, holding that office from 1989 until 1992.
She died at the age of ninety on 27 October 2008, and a service of thanksgiving for her life was held at Street Michael and All Angels Church, Melksham, in December 2008.