Lucius Charles Cary, 7th Viscount Falkland (c. 1707 – 27 February 1785) was a Scottish peer.

Biography

Cary was the son of

Lucius Cary, 6th Viscount Falkland Lucius Henry Cary, 6th Viscount Falkland (27 August 1687 – 31 December 1730) was a Scottish peer and Jacobite. Biography Cary was the son of Edward Cary (1656–1692), of Caldicot, Monmouthshire, and his wife Anne, the eldest daughter of C ...

and his first wife, Dorothy. He succeeded to the peerage in 1730 when his father, a loyal Jacobite (and an earl in the

Jacobite peerage The Jacobite peerage includes those peerages created by James II and VII, and the subsequent Jacobite pretenders, after James's deposition from the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland following the Glorious Revolution of 1688. These creati ...

) died in Paris. On 6 April 1734, Falkland married Jane, Viscountess Villiers (d. December 1751), the daughter of Richard Butler and widow of his first cousin, James, Viscount Villiers. They had one son and five daughters: * Lucius Cary, Master of Falkland (1735–1780) *Hon. Jane Cary (1736–1808) *Hon. Mary Elizabeth Cary (1738 – 1 October 1783), married Rev.

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(d. 1827) *Hon. Frances Dorothy Cary (d. 1761), married

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on 12 July 1760 *Hon. Mary Cary *Hon. Charlotte Cary, married Anthony Chapman On 10 October 1752, Falkland married Sarah, Countess of Suffolk (d. 27 May 1776), the daughter of

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and widow of

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. They had no children. Falkland's only son predeceased him in 1780, so when he died in 1785, he was succeeded by his grandson

Henry Cary, 8th Viscount Falkland Henry Thomas Cary, 8th Viscount Falkland (27 February 1766 – 28 May 1796), styled Master of Falkland from 1780 to 1785, was a Scottish peer and British Army officer. Biography Cary was the elder son of Lucius Cary, Master of Falkland and his ...

References

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