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2 unusual facts about Sir Richard Vyvyan, 1st Baronet


Cornish currency

A Royalist mint was established in Truro in 1642-43 during the English Civil War by Sir Richard Vyvyan; in September 1643 it was moved to Exeter.

Richard Vyvyan

Sir Richard Vyvyan, 1st Baronet (c. 1613–1665), Member of Parliament and Royalist during the English Civil War


Anatomy Act 1832

In 1832 a new Anatomy Bill was introduced, which, though strongly opposed by Hunt, Sadler and Vyvyan, was supported by Macaulay and O'Connell, and finally passed the House of Lords on 19 July 1832.

Bridgeman baronets

The Bridgeman Baronetcy, of Ridley in the County of Chester, was created on 12 November 1773 for Orlando Bridgeman, Member of Parliament for Horsham and younger son of the 1st Baronet, of the Great Lever creation.

John Copley

For over 50 years Copley has been the partner of John Hugh Chadwyck-Healey (born 1922), grandson of Charles Chadwyck-Healey, 1st Baronet.

Richard Vyvyan

Sir Richard Vyvyan, 8th Baronet (1800–1879), Member of Parliament and Fellow of the Royal Society

Sir Richard Vyvyan, 3rd Baronet (1681–1736), Member of Parliament and prominent Jacobite

Sir Richard Vyvyan, 1st Baronet

King Charles rewarded him for his loyalty by creating him a baronet on 12 February 1645.

Sir Richard Vyvyan, 8th Baronet

His account of the ‘fogou’ or cave at Halligey, Trelowarren, is in the Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall (1885, viii. 256-8).

Viscount Hanworth

Pollock was the fifth son of Mr George Pollock, fourth son of Sir Frederick Pollock (1st Baronet, of Hatton) (elder brother of Field Marshal Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet, of The Khyber Pass).


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