Vivian Walter Hough Bendall (born 14 December 1938) is a British Conservative politician and estate agent.
After attending Coombe Hill House Preparatory School and Broad Green College in Croydon, he entered the same profession himself in 1956.
At the February 1974 general election, he stood for the Conservative Party in Hertford and Stevenage, losing to Labour's Shirley Williams by 8,176 votes;[2] a second try in October 1974 saw defeat by 9,046.
[4] At the 1976 Conservative Party conference, he denounced the ruling Labour government as having "strangled the nation" and demanded an immediate general election.
[8] This proved accurate as his majority was 5,497 more than the votes gained by the Labour candidate, Tessa Jowell, later a Cabinet Minister.
He attempted to win the seat back at the 2001 general election, arranging for his picture to be taken with former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.