Hussey Vivian, 3rd Baron Vivian

Hussey Crespigny Vivian, 3rd Baron Vivian

Hussey Crespigny Vivian, 3rd Baron Vivian GCMG CB DL FRGS (19 June 1834 – 21 October 1893) was a British diplomat from the Vivian family.

Born at Connaught Place, London, Vivian was the eldest son of Charles Vivian, 2nd Baron Vivian and was educated at Eton College. In 1851, he became a clerk in the Foreign Office, later travelling to Paris with George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon in 1856 for the signing of the Treaty of Paris and with John Campbell, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane to Berlin in 1861, to invest William I of Prussia with the Order of the Garter. In 1864, he was sent to Athens with a draft treaty for the transfer of the Ionian Islands to Greece and became a senior clerk in the Foreign Office in 1869.

In 1873, Vivian was sent to Alexandria as Consul-General, transferred to Bucharest a year later and returned to Alexandria in 1876, where he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath. He was sent to Bern as Minister Resident in 1879 and was promoted to Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation in 1881. Few months later, he was transferred to Copenhagen and in 1884 to Brussels, where was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George. Succeeding to his father's title in 1886, he was later promoted to GCMG for his services to the slave trade conference in Brussels in 1889. His final and highest position was to Rome in 1892, where he remained until he died from pneumonia in 1893. The Prince of Naples was present at his funeral.

Family

On 8 June 1876, Vivian married Louisa Duff and they had five children, including:

• Dorothy Maud Vivian (1879–1939), married Douglas Haig.
• George Crespigny Brabazon Vivian (1878–1940)
• Alexandra Mary Freesia Vivian (1890–1963), married Charles Pelham, Lord Worsley.

References

• Radford, E. L., rev. Matthew, H. C. G., Vivian, Hussey Crespigny, third Baron Vivian (1834–1893), diplomatist, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography