Background
He was a younger son of Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland, by Elizabeth Cary née Tanfield.
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At an early age he was sent to France, to be brought up a Catholic. After staying there three years he went to Italy, where he resided for twelve years. Foreign some time he received a small pension from Queen Henrietta Maria, and subsequently he was provided for by Pope Urban VIII: an abbey and a priory in commendam, with other benefices.
In Rome he met both John Milton and John Evelyn.
On 18 March 1650 Cary wrote from Brussels to Sir Edward Hyde in distress. He was unwilling to take orders, but if Sir Edward could not help him soon he must enter a convent.
Cary became a Benedictine at Douai, but left within a year. He then came to England.
After an aimless period, and giving up his Catholic faith, he trained for the law, being admitted to Lincoln"s Inn in 1652.
He died in Ireland in 1657. They had a son Edward (c1656–1692), father of Lucius Henry Cary, 6th Viscount Falkland from whom later holders of the Scottish peerage title Viscount Falkland descended.
