Bulmer de Sales La Terriere | |
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Born | Fenwick Bulmer de Sales La Terriere Alstone, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England |
Died | 23 June 1925 London, England, UK | (aged 69)
Occupation(s) | Soldier and author |
Years active | 1877–1925 |
Children | Lieut-Colonel Howard Montague Bulmer de Sales La Terriere |
Fenwick Bulmer de Sales La Terriere (1856–1925) was a Colonel of the British Army, Knight of the Order of the Medjidie,[1] a member of the French nobility,[2] and an author.
He was born at Alstone Lawn in Gloucestershire,[3] educated at Eton College, Magdalen College, Oxford[4] and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.[5] He claimed to be descended from the French aristocracy, namely the Comte de Sales de Saint Salvy.[1]
He joined the army, serving in the 5th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, and later as Captain of the 18th Hussars. He gained the rank of Lieutenant-colonel. From 18 January 1902, he was an Exon of the King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard.[6][7]
In 1924, de Sales La Terriere's autobiography, Days that Are Gone, being the Recollections of some Seventy Years of the Life of a very ordinary Gentleman and his Friends in Three Reigns was published.[8][9] The autobiography received favourable reviews in The Times shortly after its publication.[10] De Sales La Terriere was a luminary of fashionable society at the time, although the Oscholars Library called his opinions of Oscar Wilde "conservative and rather naïve"[4]