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Frederick Benjamin Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes Baron Saye & Sele (16th)
(1799-1887)
Honourable Emily Wingfield
(1798-1837)
Thomas Robert Hay-Drummond Earl of Kinnoull (11th)
Louisa Burton Rowley
John Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes Baron Saye & Sele (17th)
(1830-1907)
Lady Augusta Sophia Hay-Drummond

Lieutenant-Colonel The Hon. Sir Eustace Edward Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes Baronet (1st)
(1864-1943)

 

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The Hon. Lady Florence Agnes Rathfelder O.B.E

Lieutenant-Colonel The Hon. Sir Eustace Edward Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes Baronet (1st) 1 2

  • Born: 29 Feb 1864
  • Marriage: The Hon. Lady Florence Agnes Rathfelder O.B.E on 6 Nov 1894 in Chapel of St. Hilda, Bishops Cote, Pretoria 1
  • Died: 9 Feb 1943 aged 78
  • Buried: St. Mary's, Broughton, Oxfordshire

bullet  Noted events in his life were:

• Military Service, 1895-1918. He was commissioned into the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars in 1895. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1899, Captain in 1901, Major in 1905, and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1918.

He fought in the North-West Rebellion in 1885, was stationed in Egypt from 1888-89, took part in the expedition to Mashonaland in 1890, and fought in the Second Boer War with the Imperial Yeomanry.

At the 1906 general election , Fiennes was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Banbury and with a brief interruption in 1910, held the seat until the 1918 general election . He was also Parliamentary Private Secretary to Winston Churchill , the then First Lord of the Admiralty from 1912-14 and fought in Flanders and the Dardanelles during World War I .


Eustace married The Hon. Lady Florence Agnes Rathfelder O.B.E, daughter of John Rathfelder and Unknown, on 6 Nov 1894 in Chapel of St. Hilda, Bishops Cote, Pretoria.1 (The Hon. Lady Florence Agnes Rathfelder O.B.E was born on 2 May 1867 in Constantia, Cape Town, South Africa, died on 31 Oct 1950 2 and was buried in St. Mary's, Broughton, Oxfordshire.)


Sources


1 Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican Church), Parish Registers (1850-2004), "Pretoria, St. Alban the Martyr," Marriages 1871-1955 (Image 46 of 768); digital images, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Family Search (www.familysearch.org : accessed 17 Aug 2013).

2 Darryl Lundy, "The Peerage.com," database(www.thepeerage.com : accessed 17 Aug 2013), p33659.htm - John Rathfelder.



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