Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland

The Right Honourable The Viscount Falkland PC
Secretary of State
In office 8 January 1642 – 20 September 1643
Monarch	Charles I
Preceded by	Sir Edward Nicholas
Succeeded by	George, Earl of Bristol
Lord Privy Seal
In office 1643–1643
Monarch	Charles I
Preceded by	Henry, Earl of Manchester
Succeeded by	Sir Edward Nicholas
Personal details
Born	c.1610 Burford, Oxfordshire, England
Died	20 September 1643 (aged 32 or 33) Newbury, England
Alma mater	Trinity College, Dublin St. John's College, Cambridge
Military service
Allegiance	Royalist
Rank	Cavalryman
Battles/wars	Battle of Edgehill, Siege of Gloucester, First Battle of Newbury

Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland (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.

Cary was born at Burford in either 1609 or 1610 as the son of Sir Henry Cary, afterwards first Viscount Falkland, and his wife Elizabeth, whose father Sir Lawrence Tanfield was at that time Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Henry Cary, a member of an ancient Devon family, was lord deputy of Ireland from 1622 to 1629. He was made Viscount Falkland and Lord Cary in 1620. His viscountcy, Falkland, was a royal burgh in Scotland, notwithstanding that the Carys were an English family and had no connection with the burgh, though letters patent were later issued naturalising the Viscount and his successors as Scottish subjects.

In 1621 Lucius was admitted to St John's College, Cambridge but in the following year he migrated to Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated BA in 1625. In 1625 he inherited from his grandfather the manors of Great Tew and Burford in Oxfordshire, and, about the age of 21, married Lettice, daughter of Sir Richard Moryson, of Tooley Park in Leicestershire. Following a quarrel with his father, whom he failed to propitiate by offering to hand over to him his estate, he left England to take service in the Dutch army, but soon returned. In 1633, by the death of his father, he became Viscount Falkland. His mother had embraced Roman Catholicism, to which it was now sought to attract Falkland himself, but his studies and reflections led him, under the influence of William Chillingworth, to the interpretation of religious problems rather by reason than by tradition or authority.

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