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.

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. Cary was educated at the

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, and on 4 August 1863, purchased an ensigncy in the 49th Regiment of Foot. He was promoted lieutenant on 9 August 1867, and exchanged into the

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on 23 October. He was subsequently promoted captain on 24 November 1877, Cary married Mary, daughter of Robert Reade, Esq., of

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, on 25 September 1879. They had three sons and three daughters: * Lucius Cary, 13th Viscount Falkland (1880–1961) *Hon. Catherine Mary Cary (29 May 1882 – 16 October 1972), married Godfrey Dalrymple-White in 1912 *Hon. Mary Selina Cary (10 November 1884 – 6 November 1960) *Lt-Cdr The Hon. Byron Plantagenet Cary, DSO (25 January 1887 – 16 September 1917), lost commanding HMS ''G9'' *Hon. Lettice Cary (29 September 1888 – 19 December 1963), married in 1918 Commander Ralph Neville (1887–1936) and in 1937 Major Philip Pearson-Gregory *Hon. Philip Plantagenet Cary (1895–1968) Cary was seconded for staff service on 10 April 1880. He was subsequently promoted to major in his regiment, which became the

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during the

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of 1881, and served as aide-de-camp to Major-General Percy Feilding in

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. Cary retired on 5 March 1884 with the honorary rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1886, he succeeded his uncle, Admiral

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, in the peerage. In April 1893, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of the

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, and was given the honorary rank of colonel in the 4th (Militia) Battalion of the

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, of which he was lieutenant-colonel. Falkland was elected a representative peer for Scotland in 1894, and sat in the

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until his death. He retired from the Army on 11 November 1896. Falkland died in 1922, and was succeeded by his eldest son Lucius Cary, 13th Viscount Falkland.

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