Captain Herbert Reginald Vyvyan OBE (1867–1949) was a British soldier, police officer and Chief Constable of Devon Constabulary from 1907 to 1931.
[2] On 6 January 1889 he married Caroline Jane Hunt in Lahore, presidency of Bengal, and with her had a son and a daughter.
[3][4] On leaving college Vyvyan was gazetted with the Cornish Rangers, billeted in Bodmin, a unit which in July 1881 became the 3rd Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.
Vyvyan returned to his regiment on 1 January 1903,[7] but retired from the military late the same year and moved to Exeter.
On retirement from the Army in 1903, Vyvyan was appointed Superintendent of the Devon Constabulary, Cullompton Division, a post he held until 1907.