Author: Gerard Francis Fiennes
Alternate names: Gerry Fiennes; G. F. Fiennes; Gerard Francis Gisborne Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes OBE, MA
Born: 1906
Died: 1985
Bio: British railway manager who rose through the ranks of the London and North Eastern Railway and later British Rail following graduation from the University of Oxford. British Rail fired him in 1967 for publishing an outspoken and critical book, I Tried to Run a Railway.