Captain Vivian Ronald Brandon (1 April 1882–2 January 1944)

British Royal Navy Captain. Born in Chiswick, London. In 1910, while a Lieutenant, Brandon was arrested by the German police while undertaking a survey of the forts in Heligoland and sentenced to four years imprisonment for espionage. He was pardoned by the Kaiser, after serving nearly three years at Wesel and Koenigstein prisons, as a result of an amnesty to celebrate the marriage of the Kaiser’s daughter to Prince Ernst Augustus, the Duke of Cumberland. During his incarceration he translated Goethe's poem "Hermann and Dorothea". He married Joan Elizabeth Maud Simpson in 1915. Brandon was invested as a Commander, Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.). He died in Kensington, London, aged 61.