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Sir Arthur Pendarves Vivian KCB
Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a United Kingdom order of chivalry founded by George I of Great Britain on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the medieval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements....
 (4 June 1834-18 August 1926), was a British Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats....
 politician.

Vivian was the son of the industrialist John Henry Vivian
John Henry Vivian

John Henry Vivian was an industrialist and politician.Vivian was the son of John Vivian, of Truro, Cornwall, and his wife Betsey, daughter of Reverend Richard Cranch, and the brother of Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian....
 and his wife Sarah, daughter of Arthur Jones. Henry Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea
Henry Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea

Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea was a Wales industrialist.The son of industrialist and Member of Parliament John Henry Vivian, Henry Hussey Vivian served as a Member of Parliament for Truro 1852-7, Glamorganshire 1857?85 and Swansea District 1885?93....
, was his elder brother and Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian
Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian

Richard Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian Order of the Bath Royal Guelphic Order Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known as Sir Hussey Vivian from 1815 to 1828 and Sir Hussey Vivian, Bt from 1828 to 1841, was a British cavalry leader who came of a Cornwall family....
, his uncle. He was elected to the House of Commons
British House of Commons

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the British monarchy and the House of Lords ....
 as one of two representatives for Cornwall West
West Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)

West Cornwall is a former county constituency in the British House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected two Member of Parliament by the bloc vote system of election....
 in 1868, a seat he held until 1885, when the constituency was abolished.

Vivian married firstly Lady Augusta Emily, daughter of Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl
Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl

Edwin Richard Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl Order of St Patrick was a United Kingdom Peer. He was styled Viscount Adare from 1824 to 1850....
, in 1867.






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Sir Arthur Pendarves Vivian KCB
Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a United Kingdom order of chivalry founded by George I of Great Britain on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the medieval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements....
 (4 June 1834-18 August 1926), was a British Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats....
 politician.

Vivian was the son of the industrialist John Henry Vivian
John Henry Vivian

John Henry Vivian was an industrialist and politician.Vivian was the son of John Vivian, of Truro, Cornwall, and his wife Betsey, daughter of Reverend Richard Cranch, and the brother of Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian....
 and his wife Sarah, daughter of Arthur Jones. Henry Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea
Henry Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea

Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea was a Wales industrialist.The son of industrialist and Member of Parliament John Henry Vivian, Henry Hussey Vivian served as a Member of Parliament for Truro 1852-7, Glamorganshire 1857?85 and Swansea District 1885?93....
, was his elder brother and Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian
Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian

Richard Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian Order of the Bath Royal Guelphic Order Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known as Sir Hussey Vivian from 1815 to 1828 and Sir Hussey Vivian, Bt from 1828 to 1841, was a British cavalry leader who came of a Cornwall family....
, his uncle. He was elected to the House of Commons
British House of Commons

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the British monarchy and the House of Lords ....
 as one of two representatives for Cornwall West
West Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)

West Cornwall is a former county constituency in the British House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected two Member of Parliament by the bloc vote system of election....
 in 1868, a seat he held until 1885, when the constituency was abolished.

Vivian married firstly Lady Augusta Emily, daughter of Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl
Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl

Edwin Richard Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl Order of St Patrick was a United Kingdom Peer. He was styled Viscount Adare from 1824 to 1850....
, in 1867. After her death in 1877 he married secondly Lady Jane Georgina, daughter of John Dalrymple, 10th Earl of Stair, in 1880. There were children from both marriages. His second wife died in June 1914. Vivian survived her by twelve years and died in August 1926, aged 92.

See also

  • Baron Vivian
    Baron Vivian

    Baron Vivian, of Glynn and of Truro in the County of Cornwall, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.The title was created in 1841 for the soldier Sir Hussey Vivian....
  • Baron Swansea
    Baron Swansea

    Baron Swansea, of Singleton in the County of Glamorgan, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1893 for the industrialist Henry Hussey Vivian....