Sir Francis Vyvyan (1575 – 11 June 1635), of

Trelowarren Mawgan-in-Meneage is a civil parishes in England, civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated in the Meneage district of The Lizard, The Lizard peninsula south of Helston in the former administrative district of Kerrier. The pari ...

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, was an English

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(MP); his surname is sometimes spelt Vivian. The eldest son of

Hannibal Vyvyan Hannibal Vyvyan, sometimes spelled Vivian (1545 – 4 February 1610), of Trelowarren in Cornwall, was an English Member of Parliament (MP). Vyvyan was the eldest son of John Vyvyan (died 1577), also an MP, and head of one of Cornwall's leadi ...

, an MP,

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and Captain of

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, Francis became Captain of St Mawes Castle himself in 1603. He was MP for

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in the

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of 1604 and

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in the

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of 1614. He was briefly Vice-Admiral for South Cornwall in 1607–08 after his father's retirement from that post, and served as

in 1617. He was knighted in 1618. However, falling from favour, he was dismissed from the captaincy of St Mawes in 1632 and fined £2000. He married twice. His eldest son by his second marriage to Loveday Connock,

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, was knighted shortly before his father's death in 1635, and in 1645 was raised to the dignity of a baronetcy.

References

* ''Vivian's Visitations of Cornwall'' (Exeter: William Pollard & Co, 1887

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