Baron Swansea, of Singleton

Singleton Park

Singleton Park is the largest urban park in the city of Swansea and is located in Sketty. The park has hosted many entertainment and cultural events such as Party in the Park and Proms in the Park which were regular events by local stations The Wave & Swansea Sound and other music events held by...

 in the County of Glamorgan

Glamorgan

Glamorgan or Glamorganshire is one of the thirteen historic counties and a former administrative county of Wales. It was originally an early medieval kingdom of varying boundaries known as Glywysing until taken over by the Normans as a lordship. Glamorgan is latterly represented by the three...

, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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The barony was created on 9 June 1893 for the industrialist Sir Henry Vivian, 1st Baronet

Henry Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea

Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea was a Welsh industrialist and politician.-Biography:Born at Singleton Abbey, Swansea, Henry was the eldest son of industrialist and MP John Henry Vivian and his wife Sarah, daughter of Arthur Jones, of Reigate. His uncle was Sir Richard Hussey Vivian, first...

. He had already been created a Baronet, of Singleton in the County of Glamorgan, on 13 May 1882. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Baron. On his death the titles passed to his half-brother, the third Baron. the titles are held by the latter's grandson, the fifth Baron, who succeeded his father in 2005.

John Henry Vivian

John Henry Vivian

John Henry Vivian was a Welsh industrialist and politician of Cornish extraction.Vivian was the son of John Vivian, of Truro, Cornwall, and his wife Betsey, daughter of the Reverend Richard Cranch, and the brother of Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian...

, father of the first Baron, was an industrialist and politician. The soldier Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian

Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian

Lieutenant General Richard Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian GCB, GCH, PC , known as Sir Hussey Vivian from 1815 to 1828 and Sir Hussey Vivian, Bt from 1828 to 1841, was a British cavalry leader who came of a Cornish family.-Early career:Educated at Harrow and Exeter College, Oxford, Vivian entered...

, was the uncle of the first Baron. The Liberal politician Sir Arthur Vivian

Arthur Vivian

Sir Arthur Pendarves Vivian KCB was a British industrialist, mine-owner and Liberal politician, who worked in south Wales and Cornwall, and sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1885.-Early life and education:...

 was the younger brother of the first Baron.

Barons Swansea (1893)

• Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea
  Henry Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea
  Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea was a Welsh industrialist and politician.-Biography:Born at Singleton Abbey, Swansea, Henry was the eldest son of industrialist and MP John Henry Vivian and his wife Sarah, daughter of Arthur Jones, of Reigate. His uncle was Sir Richard Hussey Vivian, first...
  
   (1821–1894)
• Ernest Ambrose Vivian, 2nd Baron Swansea (1848–1932)
• Odo Richard Vivian, 3rd Baron Swansea (1875–1934)
• John Hussey Hamilton Vivian, 4th Baron Swansea (1925–2005)
• Richard Anthony Hussey Vivian, 5th Baron Swansea (b. 1957)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

An heir apparent or heiress apparent is a person who is first in line of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting, except by a change in the rules of succession....

is the present holder's son the Hon. James Henry Hussey Vivian (b. 1999)