Sir Maurice Alberic Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes[a] (1 March 1907 – 14 September 1994) was an English industrialist.[1]
Fiennes was the son of Alberic Arthur Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, and his wife, Gertrude Theodosia Pomeroy (née Colley), and great-grandson of Frederick Benjamin Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 16th Baron Saye and Sele. He was educated at the independent Repton School in the village of Repton in Derbyshire and at Armstrong College in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.[1]
He was the managing director of Davy & United Engineering and chairman of Davy-Ashmore in Sheffield, and achieved success as a producer of high quality British steel.[2][3] He was made a knight by Harold Wilson in the 1965 New Year Honours in recognition of his contributions to British engineering.[4]
He married Sylvia Joan Finlay, with whom he had five children including photographer Mark Fiennes. He was the grandfather of actors Ralph Fiennes and Joseph Fiennes.[5]
Notes
- ^ This British person has the barrelled surname Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, but is known by the surname Fiennes.
References
- ^ a b Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
- ^ Langrish, J.; Gibbons, M.; Evans, W. G.; Jevons, F. R. (1972). Wealth from Knowledge: Studies of Innovation in Industry. Springer. p. 216. ISBN 9781349010547. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
- ^ Hague, Douglas; Wilkinson, Geoffrey (2018). The IRC - An Experiment in Industrial Intervention: A History of the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation. Routledge. p. 189. ISBN 9781351253147. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
- ^ "No. 43529". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1964. p. 1.
- ^ "Fiennes says acting is still open to all | SBS News". SBS News. 5 March 2014. Retrieved 13 May 2018.