FALKLAND, HENRY CARY, VISCOUNT, descended from the Caryl of Cockiugton, was the son of Sir Edward Cary of Berkhamsted and Aldenham in Hertfordshire, at which latter place ho was born Into in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. When about sixteen years of age, he was sent to Exeter College, Oxford; but he left that university without taking a degree. In 1608 he was made one of the Knights of the Bath, at the creation of Henry, prince of Wales; and in 1617 he was sworn in comptroller of his majesty's household, and made one of his privy council. On the 10th of November 1620 he was created Viscount of Falkland, in the county of Fife, in Scot land. King James I., knowing his abilities and experience, constituted him Lord Deputy of Ireland, into which office he was sworn Septem ber 18th, 1622, and continued in it till 1629. During his administra tion he is said to have kept a strict hand over the Itomau Catholics in that kingdom, which gave them occasion to send complaints to the court of England against him, till, by their clamour and prevailing power, he was removed in disgrace. Lelaud, in his History of Ire land,' has given the character of his government. "Lord Falkland," he says, "seems to have been more distinguished by his rectitude than abilities. In a government which required vigour and austerity,
he was indolent and gentle : courting rather than terrifying the factious. Ho was harassed by the intrigues and clamour. of the king'e ministers, whom he could not always gratify to thei ull extent of their desires ; his actions were severely maligned tit the court of England; his admi nistration in consequence was cautions and embarrassed. Such a governor was little qualified to awe the numerous and powerful body of recusants, relying on their merits, and stimulated by their eccle siastics to the most imprudent excesses." Lord Falkland returned and lived in honour and esteem till 1633, in which year, In the month of September, he died, in consequence of having broken one of his legs by an accident in Theobalds Park. A ' History of the most unfor tunate Prince Edward II,,' written by him, was published under the editorship of Sir James Harrington, in folio and octavo, in 1680. Lord Orford ('Royal and Noble Authors,' voL v., p. 65) says he was remark able for an invention to prevent hie name being counterfeited, by art fully concealing in it the successive years orhie ago, and by that means, detecting a man who had not observed so nico a particularity.