Background
He was born on Darbalara Station near Gundagai to pastoralist Leopold Fane De Salis and Charlotte Macdonald.
He was born on Darbalara Station near Gundagai to pastoralist Leopold Fane De Salis and Charlotte Macdonald.
He received a private education and then farmed at Tharwa and Michelago. He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Queanbeyan in 1882, but did not re-contest in 1885. De Salis died at Michelago in 1931.