Career
He matriculated at Saint Edmund Hall, Oxford, on 22 April 1687, at the age of fifteen. He entered himself as a student of the Middle Temple, 2 May 1692, and was called to the bar on 3 June 1698. He acquired a portion of that manor, disposing in 1707 of his paternal estate of Fallowden.
On 24 January
1715 he became Serjeant-at-Law, and, in spite of the change of dynasty, he presided over the Carmarthen circuit until his death on 14 September following. He was buried in the church of Fifehide Nevill, where a monument was erected to his memory. Serjeant Salkeld is best remembered as a diligent and painstaking law reporter, his Reports of Cases in the King"s Bench, 1689–1712, published posthumously in 1717 and 1718, being the standing authority for that period.
With others he translated into English the Reports of Sir Creswell Levinz in the King"s Bench, 1660–1697, which appeared in 1722.