Nathaniel Fiennes, 21st Baron Saye and Sele

Nathaniel Thomas Allen Fiennes, 21st Baron Saye and Sele (born 22 September 1920) is an English peer and businessman.

Life and education

Nathaniel Thomas Allen Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes was born on 22 September 1920, the son of Ivo Murray Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes and Hersey Cecilia Hester Butler. Despite a family connection with Winchester College, he was educated at Eton College, and then at New College, Oxford. During the Second World War he served in the Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) and was twice Mentioned in Despatches.

Fiennes 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. In 1965 he changed his surname by Deed poll to Fiennes thereby relinquishing the surnames Twisleton and Wykeham. When his father died in 1968, Fiennes succeeded him as 21st Baron Saye and Sele. He was a Fellow of Winchester College between 1967 and 1983. He became a Chartered Surveyor and was a partner of Laws and Fiennes before becoming a regional director within Lloyds Bank (1983–90). Since 1979 he has been a Deputy Lieutenant of Oxfordshire.

Lord Saye and Sele is known as Nat to his family and friends. He is the father of author William Fiennes. He lives with his wife at his family's ancestral home, Broughton Castle in Oxfordshire.

Marriage and children

Lord Saye and Sele married Mariette Helena Salisbury-Jones, the daughter of Maj.-Gen. Sir Arthur Guy Salisbury-Jones in 1958. Together they had five children:

1. Hon. Richard Ingel Fiennes (19 August 1959 – 13 April 2001)
2. Hon. Martin Guy Fiennes (born 27 February 1961)
3. Hon. Susannah Hersey Fiennes (born 27 February 1961)
4. Hon. Thomas Nathaniel Fiennes (11 October 1965 – 3 September 1968)
5. Hon. William John Fiennes (born 7 August 1970)

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
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