Background
Saye and Sele was the eldest son of John Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 17th Baron Saye and Sele, and his wife Lady Augusta Sophia, daughter of Thomas Hay-Drummond, 11th Earl of Kinnoull.
Saye and Sele was the eldest son of John Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 17th Baron Saye and Sele, and his wife Lady Augusta Sophia, daughter of Thomas Hay-Drummond, 11th Earl of Kinnoull.
He served as Comptroller of the Household between 1912 and 1915. Saye and Sele fought in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 as a Captain in the Royal Scots Fusiliers. He retired, but was on 2 June 1902 appointed Lieutenant-Colonel in command of the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, based in Ayr.
He was appointed an Honorary Colonel of the Battalion in 1907.
During the First World War he served as an Area Commandant in Flanders. He was also a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 3rd Battalion of the Middlesex County Regiment.
Saye and Sele succeeded his father in the barony in 1907 and took his seat on the Liberal benches in the House of Lords. From 1912 to 1915 he served under H. H. Asquith as Comptroller of the Household.
Lady Saye and Sele died in July 1946, aged 82.
