Lucius Henry Cary, 6th Viscount Falkland (27 August 1687 – 31 December 1730) was a Scottish peer and Jacobite. Cary was the son of Edward Cary (1656–1692), of

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, and his wife Anne, the eldest daughter of

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. In 1694, he succeeded as

Viscount Falkland Viscount Falkland is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. Referring to the royal burgh of Falkland in Fife, it was created in 1620, by King James VI, for Sir Henry Cary, who was born in Hertfordshire and had no previous connection to Scotla ...

upon the death of his third cousin once removed,

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. Early in life, his guardian sued on his behalf to obtain the estate of

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, Middlesex. Upon the death of Falkland's first cousin once removed, John Cary, in 1686, he had left that estate in trust to his great-niece, Elizabeth Willoughby, provided that she would marry

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within three years of his death; the inheritance was otherwise to go to the 5th Viscount and his heirs, then to Edward Cary and his heirs. Elizabeth's trustees came to an agreement with Falkland and Edward Cary to allow her to enjoy the estate for life, notwithstanding her failure to marry Lord Guilford, and she afterwards married

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. However, the agreement ended upon the deaths of Edward Cary and Falkland, and Lucius' guardian sued in the

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, which found in his favor, to obtain the estate. The Berties appealed to the House of Lords, and obtained a compromise which gave Elizabeth a life interest in the estate, with reversion to Lucius. On 5 October 1704, he married Dorothy Molyneux (d. 26 June 1722) in

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, Middlesex. They had four sons and two daughters: *

Lucius Charles Cary, 7th Viscount Falkland Lucius Charles Cary, 7th Viscount Falkland (c. 1707 – 27 February 1785) was a Scottish peer. Cary was the son of Lucius Cary, 6th Viscount Falkland and his first wife, Dorothy. He succeeded to the peerage in 1730 when his father, a loyal Jacobi ...

*General Hon. George Cary (d. 11 April 1792), married Isabella (d. 1799), daughter of Arthur Ingram of Barrowby *Hon. Leeke Cary (d. 20 March 1729/30), died at Cadiz *Hon. Henry John Cary (bap. 21 January 1716/7) *Hon. Frances Cary (bap. 12 January 1718/9 – bur. 14 January 1718/9) *Hon. Dorothy Cary (bur. 9 February 1719/20) He served under General Stanhope in Spain, but after the death of Queen Anne, he became a Jacobite. Falkland became an agent of the

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, under the orders of

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. He inherited Stanwell upon Elizabeth Bertie's death in 1715, but sold it in 1720 to

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. Falkland was sent to England in disguise in July 1722 to sound out English Jacobite leaders in conjunction with the

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. Returning to the Pretender's court in Rome, he was created Earl of Falkland in the Jacobite Peerage as a reward. Around this time, he also seems to have been a patron of James Ogilvie, who prepared the first English translation of

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's ''Civil History of the Kingdom of Naples''. Falkland returned to live at the Jacobite court at

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, and married Count Dillon's daughter Laura (1708–1741). They had one daughter: *Hon. Lucy Cary (c.1728 – 7 February 1804), married Lt-Gen. Charles Edward de Rothe (1710–1766), commander of an Irish regiment in French service Falkland died in Paris in 1730 and was buried at the

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. He was succeeded by his eldest son

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