Hussey Vivian, 3rd Baron Vivian

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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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Source

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

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by ?	British Consul-General to Egypt 1873–1874	Succeeded by ?
Preceded by John Green	British Consul-General to Wallachia and Moldavia 1859-1874	Succeeded by {{{after}}}
Preceded by Edward Stanton	British Consul-General to Egypt 1876–1879	Succeeded by Edward Malet
Preceded by ?	British Resident Minister to Switzerland 1879–1881	Succeeded by ?
Preceded by ?	British Ambassador to Denmark 1881–1884	Succeeded by ?
Preceded by ?	British Minister to Belgium 1884–1892	Succeeded by ?
Preceded by The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava	British Ambassador to Italy 1892–1893	Succeeded by Sir Clare Ford
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Charles Vivian	Baron Vivian 1886–1893	Succeeded by George Vivian