The New International Encyclopædia/Falkland, Lucius Cary, second Viscount

FALKLAND, Lucius Cary, second Viscount (c.1610-43). English writer and politician. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and at Saint John's College, Cambridge. About 1629 he inherited his maternal grandfather's fortune, and devoted himself to literature. By his father's death in 1633 he became Viscount Falkland. In 1633 he was created a gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles I., and took part in the expedition against the Scots in 1639. In 1640 he entered Parliament as member for Newport and the Isle of Wight. He opposed Laud during the Short Parliament, and in the Long Parliament took sides against Stratford. He became Secretary of State in 1642, and at the outbreak of the Civil War he joined the King's party. He courted death, and was killed at the battle of Newbury. His principal work is A Discourse on the Infallibility of the Church of Rome (1660). His poems, edited by A. Groshart, were published in 1871.