Byron Plantagenet Cary, 12th Viscount Falkland (3 April 1845 – 10 January 1922) was a Scottish peer and British Army officer.
Cary was the eldest son of Capt. Byron Cary, the third son of Capt. Charles Cary, 9th Viscount Falkland.[1]
Cary was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and on 4 August 1863, purchased an ensigncy in the 49th Regiment of Foot.[2] He was promoted lieutenant on 9 August 1867,[3] and exchanged into the 35th Regiment of Foot on 23 October.[4] He was subsequently promoted captain on 24 November 1877,[5]
Cary married Mary, daughter of Robert Reade, Esq., of New York, on 25 September 1879. They had three sons and three daughters:
- Lucius Cary, 13th Viscount Falkland (1880–1961)
- Hon. Catherine Mary Cary (29 May 1882 – 16 October 1972), married Godfrey Dalrymple-White in 1912
- Hon. Mary Selina Cary (10 November 1884 – 6 November 1960)
- Lt-Cdr The Hon. Byron Plantagenet Cary, DSO (25 January 1887 – 16 September 1917), lost commanding HMS G9
- Hon. Lettice Cary (29 September 1888 – 19 December 1963), married in 1918 Commander Ralph Neville (1887–1936) and in 1937 Major Philip Pearson-Gregory
- Hon. Philip Plantagenet Cary (1895–1968)
Cary was seconded for staff service on 10 April 1880.[6] He was subsequently promoted to major in his regiment, which became the Royal Sussex Regiment during the Childers Reforms of 1881, and served as aide-de-camp to Major-General Percy Feilding in Malta. Cary retired on 5 March 1884 with the honorary rank of lieutenant-colonel.[7] In 1886, he succeeded his uncle, Admiral Plantagenet Cary, 11th Viscount Falkland, in the peerage.[1]
In April 1893, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire,[8] and was given the honorary rank of colonel in the 4th (Militia) Battalion of the Green Howards, of which he was lieutenant-colonel.[9] Falkland was elected a representative peer for Scotland in 1894, and sat in the House of Lords until his death. He retired from the Army on 11 November 1896.[10] Falkland died in 1922, and was succeeded by his eldest son Lucius Cary, 13th Viscount Falkland.
References edit
- ^ a b Ruvigny and Raineval; Melville Henry Massue; Marquis of (1904). The Jacobite Peerage. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack. p. 51.
- ^ "No. 22759". The London Gazette. 4 August 1863. p. 3905.
- ^ "No. 23311". The London Gazette. 15 October 1867. p. 5498.
- ^ "No. 23352". The London Gazette. 14 February 1868. p. 720.
- ^ "No. 24529". The London Gazette. 7 December 1877. p. 7072.
- ^ "No. 24832". The London Gazette. 9 April 1880. p. 2439.
- ^ "No. 25324". The London Gazette. 4 March 1884. p. 1064.
- ^ "No. 26394". The London Gazette. 21 April 1893. p. 2363.
- ^ "No. 26394". The London Gazette. 21 April 1893. p. 2361.
- ^ "No. 26793". The London Gazette. 10 November 1896. p. 6127.