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|honorific-prefix= [[The Right Honourable]]
|name = The Viscount Falkland
|honorific-suffix = [[Royal Guelphic Order|GCH]] [[His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council|PC]]
|image = Lucius Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland.png
|office1 = [[Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard]]
|term_start1 = June 1846
|term_end1 = 11 February 1848
|predecessor1 = [[George Percy, 5th Duke of Northumberland|The Earl of Beverley]]
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'''Lucius Bentinck Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland''' [[Royal Guelphic Order|GCH]], [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]] (5 November 1803 – 12 March 1884), styled '''Master of Falkland''' until 1809, was a British colonial administrator and [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] politician.

==Background==
Falkland was the son of [[Charles John Cary, 9th Viscount Falkland]], and his wife, Christiana. He succeeded as tenth Viscount Falkland in 1809 at the age of five after his father was killed in a duel.

He was educated at the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]] and on 21 April 1821, purchased an ensigncy in the [[22nd Regiment of Foot]].<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=17701|page=939|date=28 April 1821}}</ref> He exchanged from the half-pay of that regiment to the [[63rd Regiment of Foot]] on 13 December 1821,<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=17775|page=2463|date=22 December 1821}}</ref> and then to the [[71st Regiment of Foot]] on 20 December 1821.<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=17778|page=2|date=1 January 1822}}</ref> Falkland purchased a lieutenancy in the [[7th Regiment of Foot]] on 6 January 1825,<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=18099|page=83|date=15 January 1825}}</ref> and a captaincy on 9 December 1826.<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=18315|page=2978|date=19 December 1826}}</ref> He retired from the Army in November 1830.<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=18743|page=2346|date=9 November 1830}}</ref>

==Political and administrative career==
A [[Reform Act 1832|reformer]], Lord Falkland was elected to the [[House of Lords]] as a [[Representative peer|Scottish representative peer]] in 1831. However, already on 15 May 1832, he was created Baron Hunsdon, of Scutterskelfe in the County of York, in the [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]]. This title gave him a seat in the House of Lords. Five years later he was admitted to the [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Privy Council]].

Falkland became [[List of Lieutenant Governors of Nova Scotia|Governor of Nova Scotia]] in 1840 after the recall of [[Colin Campbell (1776–1847)|Sir Colin Campbell]]. He opposed the movement led by [[Joseph Howe]] for [[responsible government]] leading to Howe threatening to horsewhip him. He restructured the colony's [[Executive Council (Commonwealth countries)|Executive Council]] by including reformers in the body which had previously been a [[Tory]] domain but resisted the demand that the majority party in the [[legislature]] be permitted to form a government.

Falkland's term ended in 1846. He then returned to England and held office in the [[Whig Government 1846-1852|Whig government]] of [[John Russell, 1st Earl Russell|Lord John Russell]] as [[Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard]] from 1846 to 1848. The latter year he was appointed [[Governor of Bombay]], in which post he remained until 1853. He returned to England the same year and later served as a [[magistrate]] in [[Yorkshire]].

==Marriage and family==
Lord Falkland married [[Amelia Cary, Viscountess Falkland|Lady Amelia FitzClarence]] (21 March 1807 – 2 July 1858 London), the last unmarried illegitimate daughter of [[William IV of the United Kingdom|King William IV]] and his mistress, [[Dorothea Jordan|Dorothy Jordan]], on 27 December 1830 at the [[Royal Pavilion]]. The King gave away the bride and the ceremony was performed by [[Charles Sumner (bishop)|the Bishop of Winchester]]; they spent their honeymoon at [[Cumberland Lodge]].<ref>{{cite news
| last =
| first =
| title = News from Europe to the 27th of December
| work = The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser
| pages = 2
| language =
| publisher =
| date = 1831-05-17
| url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2200599
| access-date = 2009-03-02}}
</ref> The couple lived at [[Rudby Hall]], [[North Yorkshire]].<ref>{{National Heritage List for England |num= 1150627|grade=II*|desc= Skutterskelfe Hall|accessdate= 19 January 2020}}</ref> They had one son, Lucius William Charles Frederick Cary, Master of Falkland (24 November 1831 – 6 August 1871), who married Sarah Christiana Keighly (d. 4 October 1902), but died childless. Lord Falkland died in [[Montpellier]] in March 1884, aged 80. As his only son had predeceased him, he was succeeded in his titles (except for the barony of Hunsdon) by his younger brother Admiral [[Plantagenet Pierrepont Cary, 11th Viscount Falkland|Plantagenet Pierrepont Cary]].

== Legacy ==
* namesake of [[Falkland Ridge]], [[Nova Scotia]], Canada

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Hansard-contribs | mr-lucius-cary-1 | the Viscount of Falkland }}
*[http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=5423 Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online'']

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