Viscounts Falkland (1620)

1^st Viscount Falkland, Henry Cary, b.c.1576, a.1620, d.1633

Henry Cary was an English soldier and pioneer of the colonisation of Newfoundland. In 1620, though having no connection with Scotland, he was created 1^st Viscount Falkland and 1^st Lord Carye in the Peerage of Scotland. He also served as Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1622 to 1629.

2^nd Viscount Falkland, Lucius Cary, b.1610, a.1633, d.1643

Son of the 1^st Viscount and Elizabeth Tanfield (b.?, d.1639), daughter of Sir Lawrence Tanfield, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Educated at Trinity College Dublin and at St John’s College Cambridge, he was a religious intellectual, though he took up arms on behalf of his King during the Bishop’s Wars in 1639. He then served as MP for Newport, Isle of Wight, from 1640 to 1642 and Secretary of State for Charles I, being made a Privy Counsellor in 1642, and fighting for his King at the Battles of Edgehill and Newbury during the Civil War, being killed during the latter engagement.

3^rd Viscount Falkland, Lucius Cary, b.1632, a.1643, d.1649

Son of the 2^nd Viscount and Letitia Morison (b.?, d.c.1646).

4^th Viscount Falkland, Henry Cary, b.1634, a.1649, d.1663

Younger son of the 2^nd Viscount. Always having royalist sympathies, he was an MP for Oxfordshire in 1659 before being imprisoned in the Tower of London on suspicion of being involved in Booth’s plot to restore the monarchy. The following year he threw his support behind General Monck, which allowed his to maintain his royalist support from within Parliament. At the Restoration he was made a Privy Counsellor and also served in the Irish Parliament.

5^th Viscount Falkland, Anthony Cary, b.1656, a.1663, d.1694

Son of the 4^th Viscount and Rachel Hungerford (b?, d.c.1717). He followed his father as a royalist MP, he was made a Privy Counsellor in 1692 and served as First Lord of the Admiralty from 1693 to 1694. He had no children.

6^th Viscount Falkland, Lucius Henry Cary, b.1687, a.1694, d.1730

Great-grandson of the 1^st Viscount, grandson of Patrick Cary (b.c.1623, d.1657-1658) and Susan Uvedale (b.?, d.1658), and son of Edward Cary (b.1656, d.1692) and Anne Lucas (b.?, d.1709), daughter of Charles Lucas, 2^nd Lord Lucas of Shenfield. He was a prominent Jacobite and created 1^st Earl of Falkland in the Jacobite Peerage in 1722.

7^th Viscount Falkland, Lucius Charles Cary, b.c.1707, a.1730, d.1785

Son of the 6^th Viscount and Dorothy Molyneux (b.?, d.1722).

8^th Viscount Falkland, Henry Thomas Cary, b.1766, a.1785, d.1796

Ggrandson of the 7^th Viscount and Jane Butler (b.?, d.1751) and son of Lucius Ferdinand Cary (b.?, d.1780) and Anne Leith. He never married.

9^th Viscount Falkland, Charles John Cary, b.1768, a.1796, d.1809

Younger son of the 7^th Viscount. He reached the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy and died of wounds received during a duel.

10^th Viscount Falkland, Lucius Bentinck Cary, b.1803, a.1809, d.1884

Son of the 9^th Viscount and Christiana Anton (b.?, d.1822). He was Lord of the Bedchamber to William IV from 1830 to 1837 and was a Scottish Representative Peer from 1832 to 1832, when he was created 1^st Baron Hunsdon of Scutterskelfe, Yorkshire in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He was Lord-in-Waiting from 1837 to 1840 and Governor of Nova Scotia from 1840 to 1846 and was Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (Deputy Chief Whip) from 1846 to 1848. He then held office as Governor of Bombay from 1848 to 1853. He was invested as a Knight Grand Cross of the Hanoverian Order (GCH). On his death, his only son having pre-deceased him, the UK barony became extinct.

11^th Viscount Falkland, Plantagenet Pierrepont Cary, b.1806, a.1884, d.1886

Younger brother of the 10^th Viscount.

12^th Viscount Falkland, Byron Plantagenet Cary, b.1845, a.1886, d.1922

Grandson of the 9^th Viscount and son of Captain Byron Charles Ferdinand Plantagenet Cary (b.1808, d.1874) and Selina Mary Fox (b.?, d.1868). He was a Representative Peer from 1894 to his death and served as Lieutenant-Colonel of the 4^th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment and then of the Royal Susses Regiment.

13^th Viscount Falkland, Lucius Plantagenet Cary, b.1880, a.1922, d.1961

Son of the 12^th Viscount and Mary Reade (b.?, d.1920). Educated at Eton, he served in the Grenadier Guards, reaching the rank of Brevet Major and fighting in the Boer War and First World War. He received the OBE in 1919 and was a Representative Peer from 1922 to 1931.

14^th Viscount Falkland, Lucius Henry Charles Plantagenet Cary, b.1905, a.1961, d.1984

Son of the 13^th Viscount and Ella Louise Catford (b.?, d.1954). Educated at Eton, he was a Flying Office in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, seeing action in the Second World War.

15^th Viscount Falkland, Lucius Edward William Plantagenet Cary, b.1935, a.1984

Son of the 14^th Viscount and Constance Mary Berry (b.?, d.1995). He became an Elected Representative on 1999.

The courtesy title for the heir is Master of Falkland.

(Last updated: 28/12/2009)