Hussey Vivian, 3rd Baron Vivian

Who was Hussey Vivian, 3rd Baron Vivian?

Hussey Crespigny Vivian, 3rd Baron Vivian, GCMG, CB, DL, FRGS was a British diplomat.

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 CB. 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 KCMG.