Valentine Vivian

Valentine Vivian   (spook)
Born	17 March 1886 Kensington, England
Died	15 April 1969 (Age 83) Lymington, England
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Family background

Valentine Vivian was born on 17 March 1886 in Kensington, London. He was the youngest of nine children of Tom Comely, portrait painter, and Elizabeth Baly Farquhar, miniature painter. His brother Sir Sylvanus Percival Vivian (1880–1958) was former Registrar General of England from 1921 to 1945.

In 1911, Vivian married Mary Primrose Warlow, daughter of Edmund John Warlow, archdeacon of Lahore, India.

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