Ivo Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 20th Baron Saye and Sele

Ivo Murray Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 20th Baron Saye and Sele, OBE, MC (15 December 1885 – 21 October 1968) was a British peer and army officer.

Biography

He was born to Geoffrey Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 18th Baron Saye and Sele.^[1] He educated at Harrow and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.^[2]

He served as an officer during the First World War and was mentioned in despatches.^[3] He gained the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Royal Artillery. For his service he was awarded the Military Cross (1918) and the French Croix de Guerre (1919).^[4] He also fought in the Second World War between 1939 and 1941.

He succeeded as the 14th Lord Saye and Sele [E., 1603], 20th Baron Saye and Sele on 18 February 1949 and appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1961.

Family

On 16 October 1919 Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes married Hersey Cecilia Hester Butler (1889−1968), daughter of Sir Thomas Dacres Butler, and had three sons:

Nathaniel Thomas Allen Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 21st Baron Saye and Sele (1920−2024)
Ingelram Ivo Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (1922−1941)
Oliver William Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (1926−2011), Dean of Lincoln

References

^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1895). Armorial Families: A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, and a Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, and Being the First Attempt to Show which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority. Jack. p. 880.
^ School, Harrow (1911). The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911. Longmans, Green, and Company. p. 798.
^ https://www.harrowschool-ww1.org.uk/Filename.ashx?systemFileName=%2FDOCS%2FHarrowSchoolRegister1885-1925.pdf&origFilename= p. 182
^ "The Edinburgh Gazette 23 July 1919" (PDF). The Edinburgh Gazette. Retrieved 22 August 2022.

Notes

Dod's Parliamentary Companion 1958, pp 213 & 214. See also other annual editions.
Ivo Murray Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 20th Baron Saye and Sele's entry in Who's Who: https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U54256

Peerage of England
Preceded by Geoffrey Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes	Baron Saye and Sele 1949–1968	Succeeded by Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes

[1] Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1895). Armorial Families: A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, and a Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, and Being the First Attempt to Show which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority. Jack. p. 880.

[2] School, Harrow (1911). The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911. Longmans, Green, and Company. p. 798.

[3] ttps://www.harrowschool-ww1.org.uk/Filename.ashx?systemFileName=%2FDOCS%2FHarrowSchoolRegister1885-1925.pdf&origFilename= p. 182

[4] "The Edinburgh Gazette 23 July 1919" (PDF). The Edinburgh Gazette. Retrieved 22 August 2022.

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