Sir Arthur Pendarves Vivian (4 June 1834 – 18 August 1926) was a British industrialist, mine-owner and Liberal politician from the

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, who worked in

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and Cornwall, and sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1885.

Early life and education

Vivian was the third son of the industrialist John Henry Vivian and his wife Sarah Jones, daughter of Arthur Jones, of Reigate. His elder brother was

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and his uncle was

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. He was educated at Eton College, the

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of Freiberg, Saxony and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He left college in 1855, on his father's death, to manage the family's

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and rolling works and colliery at Port Talbot. and ''Times'' Obituary, 20 August 1926; p.13, column e.an
''A short history of the Hafod copperworks 1810 – 1924 (2007)''
p18 His residences in Cornwall were at Glendorgal in the parish of St Columb Minor and Bosahan on The Lizard.

Public and parliamentary service

Vivian was elected as one of two members of parliament for Cornwall West in 1868, a seat he held, as a Liberal, until 1885, when the constituency was divided under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. Vivian was a Justice of the Peace (JP) and Deputy Lieutenant for

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and a JP and Deputy Warden of the Stannaries for Cornwall. In local politics, Vivian was a county councillor for Glamorgan from 1889 to 1898, and a county alderman for Cornwall from 1898 to 1926. He served as

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in 1889. He was lieutenant-colonel of the 1st Glamorgan Rifle Volunteers,Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1881
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list published on 26 June 1902, and invested as such by King Edward VII at

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on 24 October 1902.

Travels and travel-writing

He was a frequent traveller and a fellow of the

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. He published ''Wanderings in the Western Land'' (1879), describing his travels in North America, starting 14 August 1877 in St Johns,

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. In 1879, he was made a Fellow of the Geological Society of London. He was President of the

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for 1880–81.

Family and personal life

Vivian married firstly, 3 March 1867, Lady Augusta Emily Wyndham-Quin, daughter of 3rd Earl of Dunraven. She died on 11 February 1877. He married secondly, 10 March 1880, Lady Jane Georgina Dalrymple, daughter of 10th Earl of Stair. There were children from both marriages. His second wife died on 8 June 1914. Vivian sold his residence Glendorgal, near

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on 11 December 1882 and bought the Bosahan estate, near Helston in the same year, living there from 1885 until he died in 1926, aged 92.

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holds 203 items in a deposited collection of his papers (Reference PV). Further papers, mostly relating to his Welsh business affairs are held at the West Glamorgan Archive Service. A photographic likeness of him in the 1860s is held by the

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and another, with two dogs, at Community Archives Wales.Photographic portrait at NPG
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References

Sources

* * ''Liberalism in West Cornwall: The 1868 Election Papers of A Pendarves Vivian MP'' edited and introduced by Edwin Jaggard; Devon & Cornwall Record Society, New Series Volume 42, 2000

External links

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