Byron Cary, 12th Viscount Falkland

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, an American, on 25 September 1879. They had three sons and three daughters:

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
  1. Ruvigny and Raineval; Melville Henry Massue; Marquis of (1904). The Jacobite Peerage. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack. p. 51.
  2. "No. 22759". The London Gazette. 4 August 1863. p. 3905.
  3. "No. 23311". The London Gazette. 15 October 1867. p. 5498.
  4. "No. 23352". The London Gazette. 14 February 1868. p. 720.
  5. "No. 24529". The London Gazette. 7 December 1877. p. 7072.
  6. "No. 24832". The London Gazette. 9 April 1880. p. 2439.
  7. "No. 25324". The London Gazette. 4 March 1884. p. 1064.
  8. "No. 26394". The London Gazette. 21 April 1893. p. 2363.
  9. "No. 26394". The London Gazette. 21 April 1893. p. 2361.
  10. "No. 26793". The London Gazette. 10 November 1896. p. 6127.
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by
Plantagenet Cary		 Viscount Falkland
1886–1922		 Succeeded by
Lucius Cary
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