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Francis Henry Salvin
Francis Henry Salvin (1817–1904) was an English writer on falconry and cormorant-fishing.
Life.
Born at Croxdale Hall on 4 April 1817, was fifth and youngest son of William Thomas Salvin, of Croxdale Hall, Durham, by his wife Anna Maria, daughter of John Webbe-Weston, of Sutton Place, Surrey. Educated at Ampleforth College, he served for several years in the militia, joining the 3rd battalion of the York and Lancaster Regiment in 1839 and retiring with the rank
Descent of the manor 1857–1904: Salvin.
- Francis Henry Salvin (d.1904), of Croxdale Hall, Co. Durham. He was the residuary legatee of the will of Capt. John Joseph II Webbe-Weston. He was a grandson of John Webbe-Weston, his mother having been Anna Maria Webbe-Weston, who in 1800 married William Thomas Salvin of Croxdale, a member of a Catholic family prominent in Yorkshire and County Durham. He lived at the relatively modest Whitmoor House in nearby Woking. He was an authority