Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland

Lucius Edward William Plantagenet Cary, 15th Viscount of Falkland (born 8 May 1935), styled Master of Falkland from 1961 to 1984, is a British nobleman and former politician.

The Viscount of Falkland
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer
27 April 1984 – 11 November 1999
Preceded byThe 14th Viscount Falkland
Succeeded bySeat abolished[a]
as an elected hereditary peer
11 November 1999 – 21 March 2023[b]
Preceded bySeat established[a]
Succeeded byThe 7th Earl Russell
Personal details
Born
Lucius Edward William Plantagenet Cary

(1935-05-08) 8 May 1935 (age 89)
NationalityBritish
Political party
Spouse(s)(1) Caroline Anne Butler;
(2) Nicole Mackey
Children5
Alma materWellington College

Background and education

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Cary is the eldest of four children, and the only son of Lucius Cary, 14th Viscount of Falkland, and Constance Mary Berry, daughter of Captain Edward Berry. The Falkland viscountcy is the senior viscountcy in the Peerage of Scotland, created in 1620 by King James VI.

Cary was educated at Wellington College in Berkshire, and was formerly an officer in the Hussars.[citation needed]

Political career

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Cary succeeded his father in the viscountcy in 1984 and sat in the House of Lords with the Social Democratic Party, later joining the Liberal Democrats. Following the removal of the majority of hereditary peers under the House of Lords Act 1999, he was one of the ninety-two elected to remain. In 2011 Falkland left the Liberal Democrats and sat as a Crossbencher until his retirement in 2023.[1] He is a supporter of Humanists UK,[citation needed] and has been a vice-president of the Royal Stuart Society since 2015 (his ancestors were ardent Jacobites, and he holds the title of 10th Earl of Falkland in the Jacobite Peerage).

Family

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The Viscount married Caroline Anne Butler, daughter of Lieut-Cmdr George Butler, in 1962; they were divorced in 1990. They have four children:[2]

He was married again in 1990 to Nicole Mackey, with whom he has one child:[2]

  • Hon. Charles Byron Milburn Cary (born 1992)

Arms

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Coat of arms of Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland
 
Coronet
The coronet of a viscount
Crest
A Swan wings elevated proper
Escutcheon
Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Argent on a Bend Sable three Roses of the field barbed and seeded proper (Cary); 2nd, Sable two Bars nebuly Ermine (Spencer of Ashbury, Devon); 4th, France and England quarterly with a Bordure compony Argent and Azure (Beaufort)
Supporters
Dexter: a Unicorn Argent armed crined tufted and unguled Or
Sinister: a Lion guardant proper ducally crowned and gorged with a Plain Collar Or
Motto
In Utroque Fidelis (Latin for 'Faithful in both')

Notes

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  1. ^ a b Under the House of Lords Act 1999.
  2. ^ Retired under Section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014.

References

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Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by Viscount of Falkland
1984–present
Member of the House of Lords
(1984–1999)
Incumbent
Parliament of the United Kingdom
New office
Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lords
under the House of Lords Act 1999
1999–2023
Succeeded by