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Byron Cary, 12th Viscount Falkland
Born(1845-04-03)3 April 1845
Died10 January 1922(1922-01-10) (aged 76)
EducationRoyal Military College, Sandhurst
Spouse
Mary Reade
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(m. 1879)​
Children6, including Lucius and Philip
RelativesCharles Cary (grandfather)
Lucius Cary (uncle)
Plantagenet Cary (uncle)
Military career
Service / branchBritish Army
RankLieutenant-Colonel
Unit49th Regiment of Foot
35th Regiment of Foot
Royal Sussex Regiment
North Riding of Yorkshire
4th (Militia) Battalion

Byron Plantagenet Cary, 12th Viscount Falkland (3 April 1845 – 10 January 1922) was a Scottish peer and British Army officer.

Biography

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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:

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 lieutenant-colonel commandant of the 4th (North York Militia) Battalion, Green Howards, from 6 October 1891 until his retirement on 10 November 1896, being granted the honorary rank of colonel in 1893.[9][10] 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.[11] Falkland died in 1922, and was succeeded by his eldest son Lucius Cary, 13th Viscount Falkland.

References

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  1. ^ a b 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. ^ Major Robert Bell Turton, The History of the North York Militia, now known as the Fourth Battalion Alexandra Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment), Leeds: Whitehead, 1907/Stockton-on-Tees: Patrick & Shotton, 1973, ISBN 0-903169-07-X , pp. 147–8.
  10. ^ "No. 26394". The London Gazette. 21 April 1893. p. 2361.
  11. ^ "No. 26793". The London Gazette. 10 November 1896. p. 6127.
Peerage of Scotland
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1886–1922 		Succeeded by
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