The Vyvyan Baronetcy of

Trelowarren Mawgan-in-Meneage is a civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated in the Meneage district of The Lizard peninsula south of Helston in the former administrative district of Kerrier. The parish population at the 2011 census was ...

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is a title in the

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. It was created on 12 February 1645 for Richard Vyvyan, a

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for

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and

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and

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. His eldest son, the second Baronet, represented St Mawes and

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in the

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. He was succeeded in 1697 by his son, the third Baronet, was a member of Parliament for

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and

and a prominent Jacobite. The eighth Baronet sat as

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Member of Parliament for Cornwall,

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and Helston. His grandson, the tenth Baronet, was a

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in the

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. As of 28 February 2014, the present Baronet has not successfully proven his succession and is therefore not on the Official Roll of the Baronetage, with the baronetcy considered dormant since 1995. : The Royal Warrant of 1911 suggests that if a Baronetcy is Dormant or Vacant the Title should not be acknowledged; however in this case it was acknowledged. The London Gazette no 58640 Friday14 March 2008: Duchy of Cornwall "The Prince of Wales has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Privy Seal of His Royal Highness appointing Sir Ralph Ferrers Alexander Vyvyan Bt of Trelowarren, Helston in the County of Cornwall, High Sheriff of Corwall." The family seat is

, near

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Vyvyan Baronets, of Trelowarren (1645)

Sir Richard Vyvyan, 1st Baronet Sir Richard Vyvyan, 1st Baronet (c. 1613 – 3 October 1665) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1665. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. Vyvyan was the eldest son o ...

(–1665) *

Sir Vyell Vyvyan, 2nd Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as p ...

(1639 – February 1696/97) *

Sir Richard Vyvyan, 3rd Baronet Sir Richard Vyvyan of Trelowarren, 3rd Baronet (28 September 1681 – 1724) was a prominent Jacobite. Richard Vyvyan was born in Colan, Cornwall. In 1697 he married a distant cousin, Mary Vivian, of Trewan Hall, St Columb Major, this uniting two ...

(1681–1736) *

Sir Francis Vyvyan, 4th Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as ...

(1698–1745) *

Sir Richard Vyvyan, 5th Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as ...

(1731 – October 1781) *

Sir Carew Vyvyan, 6th Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as ...

(1737 – 4 October 1814) *

Sir Vyell Vyvyan, 7th Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as ...

(1767–1820) *

Sir Richard Vyvyan, 8th Baronet Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, 8th Baronet (6 June 1800 – 15 August 1879) was an English landowner and Tories (British political party), Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons variously betwee ...

(1800–1879) *The Rev.

Sir Vyell Donnithorne Vyvyan, 9th Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as p ...

(1826–1917), Rector of

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Sir Courtenay Bourchier Vyvyan, 10th Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as ...

(1858–1941) *

Sir Richard Philip Vyvyan, 11th Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as ...

(1891–1978) * Sir John Stanley Vyvyan, 12th Baronet (1916–1995) * Sir Ralph Ferrers Alexander Vyvyan, 13th Baronet (born 1960) The

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is the present holder's son Joshua Drummond Vyvyan (born 1986). Clara Coltman Rogers Vyvyan, the wife of the 10th Baronet, wrote a number of books using the name C. C. Vyvyan; these include ''Our Cornwall''; ''Amateur Gardening for Pleasure and Profit''; ''Cornish Silhouettes''; ''Echoes in Cornwall''; ''Gwendra Cove''; and ''Bird Symphony'' (an anthology).

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Trelowarren Estate
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Vyvyan Baronets, of Trelowarren (1645)

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