Percy Vivian

Reginald Percival Vivian
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Durham
In office 4 August 1943 – 27 April 1948
Preceded by	Cecil George Mercer
Succeeded by	John Weir Foote
Member of Parliament for Durham
In office June 1957 – June 1962
Preceded by	John Mason James
Succeeded by	Russell Honey
Personal details
Born	(1902-10-16)16 October 1902 Barrie, Ontario
Died
Political party	Progressive Conservative
Profession	physician, professor of medicine

Reginald Percival (Percy) Vivian (16 October 1902 - 30 January 1986) was a Canadian politician, physician and professor of medicine. He served as a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons.

Vivian was born in Barrie, Ontario. He was elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1943 for the Ontario Progressive Conservative party. From 1943 to 1946, he was Minister of Health and Public Welfare under Premier George A. Drew and remained a member of provincial Parliament until 1948, although he was chief of McGill University's Department of Health and Social Medicine in early 1947.

Almost a decade after leaving Ontario politics, Vivian was elected to the Canadian House of Commons at the Durham riding in the 1957 general election. After winning a second term in the 1958 election, Vivian was defeated in the 1962 election by Russell Honey of the Liberal party.

External links

• Percy Vivian – Parliament of Canada biography
• Reginald Percival Vivian, MPP - Parliamentary History at Legislative Assembly of Ontario