The Vyvyan Baronetcy, of Trelowarren  in the County of Cornwall, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 12 February 1645 for Richard Vyvyan

Sir Richard Vyvyan, 1st Baronet

Sir Richard Vyvyan, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1665...

, Member of Parliament

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 for Penrhyn, Tregony

Tregony (UK Parliament constituency)

Tregony was a rotten borough in Cornwall which was represented in the Model Parliament of 1295, and returned two Members of Parliament to the English and later British Parliament continuously from 1562 to 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act....

 and St Mawes

St Mawes (UK Parliament constituency)

St Mawes was a rotten borough in Cornwall. It returned two Members of Parliament ) to the House of Commons of England from 1562 to 1707, to the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom until it was abolished by the Great Reform Act in...

 and Master of the Mint

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. The second Baronet represented St Mawes and Helston

Helston (UK Parliament constituency)

Helston, sometimes known as Helleston, was a parliamentary borough centred on the small town of Helston in Cornwall.Using the bloc vote system of election, it returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of England until 1707, then to House of Commons of Great Britain until 1800, and...

 in the House of Commons

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. The third Baronet was Member of Parliament for Mitchell

Mitchell (UK Parliament constituency)

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 and Cornwall

Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)

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 and a prominent Jacobite

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. The eighth Baronet sat as Conservative

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 Member of Parliament for Cornwall, Okehampton

Okehampton (UK Parliament constituency)

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, Bristol

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 and Helston. The tenth Baronet was a Colonel

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 in the British Army

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. As of 13 June 2007 the presumed thirteenth and present Baronet has not successfully proven his succession and is therefore not on the Official Roll of the Baronetage, with the baronetcy considered dormant since 1995. For more information, follow this link.

The twelfth Baronet's father, Ralph Ernest Vyvyan, grandson of Reverend Vyell Francis Vyvyan, younger son of the seventh Baronet, was a Major-General in the British Army.

Vyvyan Baronets, of Trelowarren (1645)

• Sir Richard Vyvyan, 1st Baronet
  Sir Richard Vyvyan, 1st Baronet
  Sir Richard Vyvyan, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1665...
  
   (c. 1613-1665)
• Sir Vyell Vyvyan, 2nd Baronet (1639-1697)
• Sir Richard Vyvyan, 3rd Baronet
  Sir Richard Vyvyan, 3rd Baronet
  Sir Richard Vyvyan of Trelowarren, 3rd Baronet was a prominent Jacobite.Richard Vyvyan was born in Colan, Cornwall...
  
   (c. 1676-1724)
• Sir Francis Vyvyan, 4th Baronet (1698-1745)
• Sir Richard Vyvyan, 5th Baronet (1731-1781)
• Sir Carew Vyvyan, 6th Baronet (1737-1814)
• Sir Vyell Vyvyan, 7th Baronet (1767-1820)
• Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, 8th Baronet
  Sir Richard Vyvyan, 8th Baronet
  Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, 8th Baronet was an English landowner and Whig and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1825 and 1857.-Early life:...
  
  (1800-1879)
• Sir Vyell Donnithorne Vyvyan, 9th Baronet (1826-1917)
• Sir Courtenay Bourchier Vyvyan, 10th Baronet (1858-1941)
• Sir Richard Philip Vyvyan, 11th Baronet (1891-1978)
• Sir John Stanley Vyvyan, 12th Baronet (1916-1995)
• Sir (Ralph) Ferrers Alexander Vyvyan, 13th Baronet (b. 21 August 1960) DL Cornwall