- Nathaniel Fiennes, 21st Baron Saye and Sele
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- Not to be confused with Nathaniel Fiennes
Nathaniel Thomas Allen Fiennes, 21st Baron Saye and Sele (born 22 September 1920) is a British nobleman and businessman.
Nathaniel Thomas Allen Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes was born on 22 September 1920, the son of Ivo Murray Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, later 20th Baron Saye and Sele, whom he succeeded in 1968.
Despite a family connection with Winchester College, he was educated at Eton College, and then at New College, Oxford.
Throughout the Second World War he served in the Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) and was twice Mentioned in Despatches.
He became a Chartered Surveyor and was a partner of Laws and Fiennes before becoming a regional director within Lloyds Bank (1983–90).
He was a trustee of the Ernest Cook Trust, which works for the preservation of English country houses and estates, from 1959 until 1995, serving as chairman from 1964 until 1990.
He was a Fellow of Winchester College 1967–83.
Since 1979 he has been a Deputy Lieutenant of Oxfordshire.
He lives at Broughton Castle.
In 1965 The Honourable Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes amended his name by Deed poll in order to relinquish the surnames Twisleton and Wykeham.
He is known as Nat to his family and friends. He is the father of author William Fiennes.
Ancestry
Frederick Benjamin Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes John Fiennes Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes Emily Wingfield of Powerscourt Geoffrey Cecil Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes Thomas Robert Hay-Drummond Augusta Sophia Hay-Drummond Louisa Burton Rowley Ivo Murray Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes Major Robert Bartholomew Lawes of Old Park Dover Marion Ruperta Lawes (Murray?) Nathaniel Thomas Allen Fiennes Sir Thomas Butler of Hambledon Hersey Butler Links and sources
- RootsWeb
- RootsWeb
- Fiennes Times
- Val Bourne, 'Broughton Castle: a garden for poets – and film stars', The Daily Telegraph, 22 May 1999
- Worldroots.com
- Debrett's People of Today (12th edn, London, 1999), p. 1739
Categories:- 1920 births
- Living people
- Old Etonians
- Alumni of New College, Oxford
- British bankers
- British Army personnel of World War II
- Rifle Brigade officers
- Barons in the Peerage of England
- Fiennes family
- British surveyors
- World War II biography stubs
- Peerage of England baron stubs
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