Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland

British Viscount (born 1935)

The Right Honourable The Viscount of Falkland
Coat of arms

Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer 27 April 1984 – 11 November 1999
Preceded by	The 14th Viscount Falkland
Succeeded by	Seat abolished ^[a]
as an elected hereditary peer 11 November 1999 – 21 March 2023 ^[b]
Preceded by	Seat established ^[a]
Succeeded by	The 7th Earl Russell

Personal details
Born	Lucius Edward William Plantagenet Cary (1935-05-08) 8 May 1935 (age 88)
Nationality	British
Political party	Social Democratic Party Liberal Democrats Crossbench
Spouse(s)	(1) Caroline Anne Butler; (2) Nicole Mackey
Children	5
Alma mater	Wellington College

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.

Background and education

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

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

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

Hon. Lucius Alexander Plantagenet Cary, Master of Falkland (born 1963)
Hon. Camilla Anne Cary (1965–1972)
Hon. Samantha Camilla Cary (born 1973)
Hon. Lucinda Mary Cary (born 1974)

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

Hon. Charles Byron Milburn Cary (born 1992)

Arms

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

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

References

^ House of Lords, Official Website - Viscount Falkland
^ ^a ^b Falkland, Viscount of. Cracroft's Peerage. 10 May 2008.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Viscount of Falkland

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