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Vivian Roy Stanley Schokman (14 November 1887 – 9 June 1953) was a Ceylonese politician and physician. Vivian Roy Stanley Schokman was born on 14 November 1887 in Colombo, the eldest son of Walter Russell Schokman (1861–1912) and Agnes Maud née Baillie (1867–1912), in a family of seven children. He was educated at Royal College, Colombo and at the Ceylon Medical College. He married Muriel Gertrude née Metzeling (1886–1935) on 24 March 1913 at the Dutch Reformed Church in Bambalapitiya. They had three children, Vivan Douglas (b.1913), Muriel Eileen Phyllis (b.1915) and Estelle Maud (b.1916).