Charles Vivian, 2nd Baron Vivian

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

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

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)
• 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]

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