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 Croix de Guerre (1919) and the Military Cross (M.C.) (1918).[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 Officer, Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) in 1961.
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