Background
Vivian, the son of Colonel Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea and Averil Beaumont, was born at Eaton Square, London.
Vivian, the son of Colonel Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea and Averil Beaumont, was born at Eaton Square, London.
In 1893, at the age of 18, he became a student at the University of Cambridge. He was awarded the Royal Victorian Order (Fourth Class) by King Edward, at Swansea, in July 1902 He served in World War I with the Royal Irish Rifles and the Cameron Highlanders. He was awarded a Territorial Decoration in 1916.
A diary by Vivian, kept during his service in the war, and including his account of the 1917 Battle of Ypres, is held by the National Library of Wales.
He later served as a Justice of the Peace and was Deputy Lieutenant of Glamorgan. He died at his country seat, Caer Beris at Builth Wells in Breconshire, on 16 November 1934.
