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