Byron Plantagenet Cary, 12th Viscount Falkland (3 April 1845 – 10 January 1922) was a Scottish peer and British Army officer.
[1] Cary was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and on 4 August 1863, purchased an ensigncy in the 49th Regiment of Foot.
[4] He was subsequently promoted captain on 24 November 1877,[5] Cary married Mary, daughter of Robert Reade, Esq., of New York, on 25 September 1879.
[1] In April 1893, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire,[8] and was lieutenant-colonel commandant of the 4th (North York Militia) Battalion, Green Howards, from 6 October 1891 until his retirement on 10 November 1896, being granted the honorary rank of colonel in 1893.
[9][10] Falkland was elected a representative peer for Scotland in 1894, and sat in the House of Lords until his death.