British peer and Whig politician
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"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:
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]
Death
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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