Sir Richard Vyvyan, 3rd Baronet

Sir Richard Vyvyan of Trelowarren, 3rd Baronet (28 September 1681 – 12 October 1724) was an English Tory politician and a prominent Jacobite in Cornwall. He was arrested and briefly imprisoned by the British government during the Jacobite rising of 1715.

Early life Richard Vyvyan was born in Colan, Cornwall, the son of Charles Vyvyan of Merthen Manor and Mary Erisay. His father was a younger son of the Royalist politician, Sir Richard Vyvyan, 1st Baronet. Vyvyan was educated at Exeter College, Oxford and trained in law at the Middle Temple. He took a fellowship at Exeter College in 1696, but resigned it in 1697 after succeeding to the title and Cornish estates of his uncle, Sir Vyell Vyvyan, 2nd Baronet. Despite the proclamation of "James III and VIII" at St Columb by James Paynter, Cornish Jacobites were bewildered by the arrest of the county leadership and the rebellion never materialised.

Vyvyan was taken to the Royal Citadel, Plymouth after the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act 1679. There, he was held without trial, without being allowed to see the warrant under which he was committed, and was refused bail. On 8 October, he was taken to London where he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. of Trewan Hall, St Columb Major, this uniting two branches of the family which had been separated for three centuries. His widow survived him by 32 years, dying in 1756. They had twelve children:

Sir Francis Vyvyan, 4th Baronet (1698–1745, served as High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1739) Mary Vyvyan (1699–?) Anna Vyvyan (1700–?) Richard Vyvyan (1701–1771) Mary Vyvyan (1702–?) Reverend Charles Vyvyan (1704–1768) Loveday Vyvyan (1705–1784) Thomas Vyvyan (1706–?) Bridget Vyvyan (1707–?) Annabella Vyvyan (1709–1717) John Vyvyan (1710–?) James Vyvyan (1711–?)