Valentine Vivian

Deputy Chief of MI6 1940-43

Valentine Vivian was an MI6 officer.

Vivian was born in 1886, son of the portrait painter Comley Vivian, and educated at St Paul's School. He joined the Indian Police in 1904, becoming assistant director for the criminal intelligence department by 1914. After service with the Indian Army in the Middle East during the First World War, he joined the British intelligence station in Istanbul, initially as a representative of Indian Political Intelligence (ref 1, p.167).