CVM GRANO

The grandparents and father of Henry Salt live at 6 Quarry Place, Shrewsbury. This remained in their main home for many decades.

Henry and Kate Salt stayed many times in Gelli Cottage, Capel Curig, when on their holidays in Snowdonia. Salt referred to it in his books ‘On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills’ and ‘The Story of my Cousins’.

The story of a protest against the desecration of the Cathedral, by the erection in it of a stained-glass window glorifying a stag-hunter and stag-hunting

Wynne-Tyson’s books explored a wide range of topics, from vegetarianism and animal rights to literature.

“My pastime has been writing sermons in plays, sermons preaching what Salt practised. Salt was original and in his way unique.” George Bernard Shaw

The Shropshire Archive holds a ‘Salt Collection’, although not mentioning Henry Salt it gives a brief outline of the Salt’s of Shrewsbury, Shropshire

Richard Williams included a very interesting list of possible ‘Salt of Staffordshire, Shropshire, etc’ on Genealogy.com some time ago. It appears to include Henry Salt’s gt.gt.grandfather Thomas Salt.

The Reverend John Hawksworth is mentioned in detail on page 188 of “The Life and Times of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon”— his surname is given as Hawkesworth.

In affectionate remembrance of Charles Francis Le Champion Moller who died from the effects of a fall from his horse near Charlottesville Virginia US the 24th Sept 1883.