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Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland PC (c. 1610 – 20 September 1643) was an English author and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1642. He fought on the Royalist side in the English Civil War and was killed in action at the First Battle of Newbury .
Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount of Falkland was an English royalist who attempted to exercise a moderating influence in the struggles that preceded the English Civil Wars (1642–51) between the royalists and the Parliamentarians. He is remembered chiefly as a prominent figure in the History of the.
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Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland. Stained-glass heraldic achievement of Lucius Cary, 6th Viscount Falkland (1687–1730), on the south chancel window in All Saints Church, Clovelly, Devon. Viscount Falkland is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. The name refers to the royal burgh of Falkland in Fife .
attrib. John Hoskins, 1630s. © National Portrait Gallery, London. Cary, Lucius, second Viscount Falkland ( 1609/10–1643 ), politician and author, was born at Burford Priory in Oxfordshire, the son of Henry Cary, first Viscount Falkland (c. 1575–1633), and Elizabeth Cary (née Tanfield) (1585–1639).
Jun 8, 2018 · views 1,948,650 updated Jun 08 2018. Falkland, Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount [S] (1610–43). Falkland was educated in Ireland, where his father was viceroy, but settled at Great Tew, his country house outside Oxford.
Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland, was killed fighting in the English Civil War on 20 September 1643. Explanations for his death range from suicide to an accident of curiosity. But perhaps more interesting to consider is how his fatality would be contested in print.
From: Falkland, Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount in A Dictionary of British History » Subjects: Literature. Reference entries. (1610–43).Falkland was educated in Ireland, where his father was viceroy, but settled at Great Tew, outside Oxford. This became, in the words of Clarendon, ‘a university bound in a lesser volume’.
