Eustace Fiennes

Fiennes was born in Reading, Berkshire, the second son of John Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 17th Baron Saye and Sele and his wife, Lady Augusta Hay-Drummond, a daughter of the 11th Earl of Kinnoull.

[1] In 1894, Fiennes married Florence Agnes Fletcher née Rathfelder (from Constantia, Cape Town).

[2] They lived in Windlesham and Sunningdale and had two children: John Eustace (1895–1917, Battle of Arras) and Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 2nd Baronet (1902–1943).

Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War in late 1899, Fiennes volunteered for service in South Africa, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Imperial Yeomanry on 3 February 1900,[4] serving in the 40th (Oxfordshire) company of the 10th Battalion.

[10] He played at the Cirencester Park Lawn Tennis Tournament in 1882 and 1883 where he was a losing quarter finalist to Charles Lacy Sweet.