Charles Vivian, 2nd Baron Vivian

Charles Crespigny Vivian, 2nd Baron Vivian (24 December 1808 – 24 April 1886), was a British peer and Whig politician from the Vivian family.

"Hook & eye". Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1876.

Background

Vivian was the eldest legitimate son of Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian, and Eliza, daughter of Philip Champion de Crespigny.[1]

Political career

Vivian sat as a Member of Parliament for Bodmin between 1835 and 1842.[2] The latter year he succeeded his father in the barony and entered the House of Lords. He also served as Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall from 1856 to 1877.[3]

Family

Vivian married Arabella, daughter of Rev. John Middleton Scott, in 1833. She died in January 1837, having borne two children:

• Hussey Crespigny Vivian, 3rd Baron Vivian (19 June 1834 - 21 October 1893)
• John Brabazon Vivian (20 October 1836 - 12 February 1874)

He remarried in 1841, to Mary Elizabeth Panton, with whom he had seven further children:

• Edith Vivian (died 15 July 1926)
• Mary Charlotte Martha Vivian (13 October 1842 - 30 October 1917)
• Maud Frances Vivian (22 November 1845 - 16 June 1893)
• Charles Hussey Panton Vivian (26 June 1847 - 12 March 1892)
• Claud Hamilton Vivian (18 March 1849 - 8 May 1902)
• Robert Champion Vivian (April 1854 - 29 August 1876)
• Walter Warrick Vivian (18 May 1856 - 13 September 1943), head agent of the Dinorwic Quarry[4]

Vivian died in April 1886, aged 77, and was succeeded in the barony by his son Hussey, who became a prominent diplomat.[1]

References

1. "Charles Crespigny Vivian, 2nd Baron Vivian". The Peerage. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
2. "The House of Commons constituencies beginning with 'B': Bodmin to Bradford East". Leigh Rayment. Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
3. "Peerages beginning with 'V'". Leigh Rayment. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
4. "The Dinorwic Quarries' Dispute". North Wales Chronicle. 13 February 1886.