Martin Guy Fiennes, 22nd Baron Saye and Sele, (né Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes; born 27 February 1961),Charles Mosley (editor), ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage'', 107th ed., vol. I (2003), p. 3667. styled as Lord Saye and Sele, is an English peer and businessman.The Oxford Lieutenancy, Martin Fiennes
Retrieved 29 January 2024.

Family and education

Fiennes is the second son of Nathaniel Fiennes, 21st Baron Saye and Sele (1920−2024),''The Banbury Guardian'', "Obituary: Nathaniel Fiennes, 21st Baron Saye and Sele − known to Banbury simply as Lord Saye − dies aged 103"
23 January 2024. Retrieved 29 January 2024. who changed the family's surname from Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes to Fiennes by

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in 1965, and Mariette Helena Salisbury-Jones (born 1935) and a grandson of Sir Guy Salisbury-Jones. He became heir to the barony of Saye and Sele in 2001 following the death of his older brother, Richard, from

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.''The Guardian'', "An Englishman's castle"
10 April 2009. Retrieved 29 January 2024. His twin sister is the artist Susannah Fiennes and his youngest brother is the writer William Fiennes; another brother, Thomas, died in a road accident in 1968 at the age of three. A member of the Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes family, he is a cousin of the actor

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and the explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes. After attending

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, Fiennes studied at

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, before completing an

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at Ashridge Management College. On 28 September 1996 he married Pauline Kang Chai Lian, with whom he has three sons: Guy Fiennes (b. 1997), Ned Richard Ling Fiennes (b. 1999) and Ivo Fiennes (b. 2009).

Career

Fiennes works in

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and joined Oxford Science Enterprises in 2015. He also manages the family seat, Broughton Castle, and in 2018 was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of

Oxfordshire Oxfordshire ( ; abbreviated ''Oxon'') is a ceremonial county in South East England. The county is bordered by Northamptonshire and Warwickshire to the north, Buckinghamshire to the east, Berkshire to the south, and Wiltshire and Glouceste ...

.''The Bucks Herald'', "Six new deputies appointed by Lord-Lieutenant of Oxfordshire"
28 February 2018. Retrieved 29 January 2024. He succeeded his father as Lord Saye and Sele in 2024.

References

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22 People educated at Eton College Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford Hult International Business School alumni British venture capitalists Deputy lieutenants of Oxfordshire