Английская Википедия:Byron Cary, 12th Viscount Falkland

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates 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:

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.

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