Sir Maurice Alberic Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (1 March 1907 – 14 September 1994) was an English

industrialist A business magnate, also known as an industrialist or tycoon, is a person who is a powerful entrepreneur and investor who controls, through personal enterprise ownership or a dominant shareholding position, a firm or industry whose goods or ser ...

. 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

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in the village of Repton in

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and at Armstrong College in

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. He was the managing director of Davy & United Engineering and chairman of Davy-Ashmore in

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, and achieved success as a producer of high quality

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steel. He was made a knight in the 1965 New Year Honours in recognition of his contributions to British engineering. He married Sylvia Joan Finlay, with whom he had five children including photographer Mark Fiennes. He was the grandfather of actors

Ralph Fiennes Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (; born 22 December 1962) is an English actor, film producer, and director. He has received List of awards and nominations received by Ralph Fiennes, various accolades, including a British Academy Film ...

and Joseph Fiennes, and great-grandfather to model and actor Hero Fiennes Tiffin.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fiennes, Maurice 1907 births 1994 deaths Maurice Businesspeople in steel Knights Bachelor 20th-century English businesspeople