Vivian Francis Bulkeley-Johnson

Vivian Francis Bulkeley-Johnson (15 January 1891 – 14 February 1968) was the aide-de-camp to Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, the Governor General of Canada from 1916 to 1918. He served in the offices of the Imperial War Cabinet in World War I from 1918 to 1919, and in the Air Ministry from 1919 to 1922.

Early life Bulkeley-Johnson, who was affectionately known as BJ, was born on 15 January 1891 in Belgravia, England. He was the only son born to Francis Head Bulkeley-Johnson, an English barrister, and Helen Percy Stoughton.

His maternal grandparents were Charles William Stoughton of Ballynoe in County Kerry, Ireland, and Percy Georgina Laura (née Gosset) Stoughton.

Bulkeley-Johnson was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford.

Career In 1912, he gazetted to the 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade and then served in India from April 1914 to September 1914, followed by service on the Western Front in France during World War I, from November 1914 until March 1915, where he was wounded at Neuve-Chapelle on 10 March 1915, Bulkeley-Johnson was gazetted Captain on 5 October 1915. was a banker in London

Personal life On 11 June 1924, he married Siriol Penelope Diana Katherine Williams-Bulkeley, daughter of Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet, who served as the Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey from 1896 until 1942, and Lady Magdalen Yorke. Siriol's maternal grandfather was Charles Yorke, 5th Earl of Hardwicke and her uncle was Albert Yorke, 6th Earl of Hardwicke, the bachelor Under-Secretary of State for India from 1900 to 1902. They divorced in 1947.

On 13 October 1949, he married the divorced American heiress, Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt in a brief ceremony at the Kensington registry office in London, and remained married to her until his death. the first secretary of the British Embassy in Washington, who was the son of Lord William Cecil and Mary Cecil, Baroness Amherst of Hackney.

From his second marriage, he became incredibly wealthy and lived in a four-story brick home in Kensington, and on a 240-acre farm in the village of Churchill northwest of Oxford, known as the Mount, where he "took an interest in inland waterways, running a company that operated boats on the Oxford and other canals". Upon his death, he donated his collection to the Mount Trust Collection of Chinese Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum. A major part of his estate was given to his alma mater, Balliol College, which named its new accommodation building 'Staircase XXII' after him.