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Sir Richard Vyvyan, 8th Baronet

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on their practice of 'consigning prisoners to solitary confinement before trial, and ordering them to be disguised by masks,' passed into a second edition in 1845. His account of the
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On his death his estate consisted of 9,738 acres (3,941 ha) in twenty-five Cornish parishes with a rent roll of £18,147. He left no issue and his successor was
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has written that Vyvyan "endorsed a quasi-Lamarckian transformation of species, together with phrenology and a broadly evolutionary cosmology."
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for his "considerable literary and scientific acquirements especially in the Philosophy of Natural History", previously having been a
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estates on the death of his father. He became a lieutenant-colonel commandant in the Cornwall yeomanry cavalry on 5 September 1820.
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Psychology, or a Review of the Arguments in proof of the Existence and Immortality of the Animal Soul,
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He also published several letters and speeches. His letter to the magistrates of
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Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and Other Evolutionary Writings
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Before Darwin: Transformist Concepts in European Natural History
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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Okehampton
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Vyvyan, Sir Richard Rawlinson, eighth baronet (1800–1879)
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but did not take a degree. In 1820, he succeeded to the
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Leigh Rayment Commons constituencies beginning with O
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vol. i. 1831; called in immediately after publication
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In 1825, Vyvyan was elected Member of Parliament for
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Index

Trelowarren
Cornwall
Trelowarren
Mawgan-in-Meneage
Tory
Ultra-Tory
Alma mater
Christ Church, Oxford
Tory politician
House of Commons
Trelowarren
Cornwall
Harrow School
Christ Church, Oxford
baronetcy
Vyvyan family
Sir Vyell Donnithorne Vyvyan, 9th Baronet
Cornwall
Okehampton
Reform Act 1832
Bristol
Helston
High Sheriff of Cornwall
Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellow of the Geological Society
Charles Thomas Pearce
Decimus Burton
Regent's Park
Lamarckian
transmutation of species

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