Hussey Vivian, 3rd Baron Vivian

Hussey Crespigny Vivian, 3rd Baron Vivian, GCMG, CB, DL, FRGS (19 June 1834, Connaught Place, London – 21 October 1893, Rome) was a British diplomat.

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 CB. He was sent to Bern in 1879, Copenhagen in 1881 and Brussels in 1884, where was appointed a KCMG. 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:

*Hon. Dorothy Maud (d. 1939), married Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig.
*Hon. George Crespigny Brabazon, later 4th Baron Vivian (1878-1940)
*Hon. Alexandra Mary Freesia (1890-1963), married Charles Pelham, Lord Worsley.

ource

* [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28340 Radford, E. L., rev. Matthew, H. C. G., "Vivian, Hussey Crespigny, third Baron Vivian (1834–1893), diplomatist", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]
*London Gazette