Maurice Fiennes

Sir Maurice Alberic Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes[lower-alpha 1] (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
  1. This British person has the barrelled surname Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, but is known by the surname Fiennes.

References
  1. Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. "No. 43529". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1964. p. 1.
  5. "Fiennes says acting is still open to all | SBS News". SBS News. 5 March 2014. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
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