Geoffrey Cecil Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 18th Baron Saye and Sele (3 August 1858 – 2 February 1937) was an English soldier and Liberal politician from the Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes family. He served as Comptroller of the Household between 1912 and 1915.
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Early life and education
Saye and Sele was born in Kensington, the eldest son of John Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 17th Baron Saye and Sele, and his wife, Lady Augusta Sophia Hay, daughter of Thomas Hay-Drummond, 11th Earl of Kinnoull. Sir Eustace Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 1st Baronet, was his younger brother. He was educated at Eton College.
Military career
Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes was gazetted into the 108th Foot of the Oxfordshire Militia on 22 January 1879, the date of the Battle of Isandlwana. His father, who was anxious for his eldest son to see active service in the Anglo-Zulu War, had him transferred to the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, and he was sent to South Africa to "avenge" the massacre at Isandlwana.
Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes acted as secretary to Sir Henry Bulwer, then the Governor of Maritzburg, and accompanied the column that captured Sikukuni. The next year, he joined the 1st Battalion of his regiment at Secunderabad, British India, and returned to England eight months later.