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Virginia Frances "Ginny", Lady Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes〔The Times, Obituary 24 February 2004〕 (9 July 1947 – 20 February 2004) was a noted explorer and wife of adventurer Ranulph Fiennes. She was the first woman to be awarded the Polar Medal, and as such was invited to join the Antarctic Club in recognition of her research work for the British Antarctic Survey and University of Sheffield into very low frequency radio propagation. ==Early life== She was born Virginia Pepper〔Her family owned chalk quarries in Amberley on the South Downs: now Amberley Working Museum〕 in Godalming, Surrey in 1947. After school〔When she was only 9, she had met the 12-year-old Ranulph Fiennes, her future husband: they married in 1970 Who's Who A & C Black 1971 p1045 ISBN 0-7136-1140-5〕 she took up deep-sea diving and was recruited to work for two years in Wester Ross for the National Trust for Scotland. She also trained at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, took marine radio officer courses and joined the Women’s Royal Army Corps Territorials.
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