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- Fiennes inherited the baronetcy at birth, as his father, an army officer, had already died in action during World War II.
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Fiennes inherited his father's baronetcy, becoming the 3rd Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes baronet, at his birth. After the war his mother moved the family to South Africa , where he remained until he was 12.
May 6, 2024 · Sir Ranulph Fiennes is a British adventurer, pioneering polar explorer, and writer, who, among his many exploits, in 1979–82 led the first north-south surface circumnavigation of the world (i.e., along a meridian). Fiennes inherited the baronetcy at birth, as his father, an army officer, had.
Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet, OBE (born 7 March 1944), better known as Ranulph Fiennes, is a British expedition leader and holder of several endurance records. After failing his A-levels at Eton, Sir Ranulph served in the British Army for eight years, including a period in counter-insurgency service while attached to the ...
Oct 4, 2007 · In the spring of 1979, a few months before Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd baronet, set off to circumnavigate the globe along the Greenwich meridian using surface...
Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet OBE (born 7 March 1944), commonly known as Sir Ranulph Fiennes ( / ˈrænʌlf ˈfaɪnz /) and sometimes as Ran Fiennes, is a British explorer, writer and poet, who holds several endurance records.
Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet OBE (born 7 March 1944), usually known simply as Ranulph (Ran) Fiennes, is a British explorer and holder of several endurance records. He is known to be the first man to visit both the north and south poles by land.
Born in 1944 in Windsor, Berkshire, as Ranulph Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, he is the third Baronet of Banbury, taking the title at birth after his father was killed in World War Two mere months before Ranulph Jr was born.
