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Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Lady Fiennes, widow of Sir Maurice Fiennes (died 2022)

 Lady Fiennes, who died 8 October, 2022, aged 91, was the widow of Sir Maurice Fiennes, Kt (1907-1994), the industrialist, scion of the Barons Saye & Sele.

 The former Erika Hüller von Hüllenried, daughter of Herbert Hüller von Hüllenried, of Vienna, and married, 16 October, 1967, as his second wife, Maurice Alberic Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes ( born 1 March, 1907), son of Alberic Arthur Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (1865-1919), and his wife the former Gertrude Theodosia Pomeroy Colley (1873-1934), scion of the Viscounts Harberton.

Her husband was managing director of Davy & United Engineering and chairman of Davy-Ashmore in Sheffield, and achieved success as a producer of high quality British steel. He was knighted in 1965 in recognition of his contributions to British engineering. Sir Maurice died 14 September, 1994.

Her husband was grandfather, from his first marriage, of actors Ralph and Joseph Fiennes.

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