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Henry Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea

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Works during the last ten years of his father's life (1845โ€“1855). He developed a range of by-products from copper-smelting and diversified into other metallurgical activities. He is credited with originating the "sliding scale" of miners' wages after the strike of 1889, though other authorities
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After his death on 28 November 1894, probate was granted to his sons Henry Hussey Vivian and Odo Richard Vivian valuing his estate at ยฃ163,707 1s 9d, he was buried in the churchyard of St Paul's Church in
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Lord Swansea took as his third wife, on 10 November 1870, Averil Beaumont (1841 โ€“ 14 January 1934), daughter of Capt. Richard Beaumont, R.N., and granddaughter of the
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Lord Swansea married, on 15 April 1847, to Jessie Dalrymple Goddard (c. 1825 โ€“ 28 February 1848), the daughter of
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attribute the idea to William Thomas Lewis, afterwards Lord Merthyr. He was one of the chief promoters of the
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and studied metallurgy in Germany and France from 1838 before entering Trinity College,
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The Hon. John Aubrey Vivian (23 July 1854 โ€“ 1 March 1898); died unmarried
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Henry Hussey Vivian (5 February 1873 โ€“ 11 December 1898); died unmarried
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branch of the copper-smelting business founded by his grandfather,
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Violet Averil Margaret Vivian (3 December 1871 โ€“ 30 March 1943)
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Averil Vivian (4 December 1876 โ€“ 1 February 1959); married
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Henry Hussey Vivian
The Right Honourable

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The 2nd Baron Swansea
Swansea District
Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn
William Williams
Glamorganshire
Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot
Truro
Humphrey Willyams
Edward Brydges Willyams
Swansea
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