Sir Arthur Pendarves Vivian Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath was a British industrialist, mine-owner and Liberal politician from the Vivian family, who worked in South Wales and Cornwall, and sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1885.
Background
Vivian was the third son of the industrialist John Henry Vivian and his wife Sarah Jones, daughter of Arthur Jones, of Reigate. He left college in 1855, on his father"s death, to manage the family"s copper smelting and rolling works and colliery at Portuguese Talbot.
Education
He was educated at Eton College, the Freiberg Mining Academy of Freiberg, Saxony and at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Career
He was a Justice of the Peace (Justice of the Peace) and Deputy Lieutenant for Glamorgan and a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Warden of the Stannaries for Cornwall. He was lieutenant-colonel of the 1st Glamorgan Rifle Volunteers. Vivian was a county councillor for Glamorgan from 1889 to 1898, was High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1889 and was awarded the Central Bank in 1894.
He was Colonel commanding the South Wales Volunteer Infantry Brigade from 1895 to 1901.
From 1898 to 1926 he was a county alderman for Cornwall and he was knighted in 1902. He was a frequent traveller and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
He published Wanderings in the Western Land (1879), describing his travels in North America, starting 14 August 1877 in Street Johns, Newfoundland. In 1879 he was made a Fellow of the Geological Society of London.
He was President of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall for 1880-1881.
Vivian married firstly, 3 March 1867, Lady Augusta Emily Wyndham-Quin, daughter of 3rd Earl of Dunraven.
Membership
20th United Kingdom Parliament. 21st United Kingdom Parliament. 22nd United Kingdom Parliament]
Vivian was elected as one of two Members of Parliament for Cornwall West in 1868, a seat he held, as a Liberal, until 1885, when the constituency was divided under the Redistribution of Seats Acting 1885.