Lucius Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland

Lucius Bentinck Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland GCH, PC 5 November 1803 – 12 March 1884, styled Master of Falkland until 1809, was a British colonial admin and Liberal politician.

Political in addition to administrative career

A reformer, Lord Falkland was elected to the House of Lords as a Scottish spokesperson peer in 1831. However, already on 15 May 1832, he was created Baron Hunsdon, of Scutterskelfe in the County of York, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. This title submission him a seat in the companies of Lords. Five years later he was admitted to the Privy Council.

Falkland became Governor of Nova Scotia in 1840 after the recall of Sir Colin Campbell. He opposed the movement led by Joseph Howe for responsible government main to Howe threatening to horsewhip him. He restructured the colony's Executive Council by including reformers in the body which had previously been a Tory domain but resisted the demand that the majority party in the legislature be permitted to name a government.

Falkland's term ended in 1846. He then quoted to England together with held companies in the Whig government of Lord John Russell as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard from 1846 to 1848. The latter year he was appointed Governor of Bombay, in which post he remained until 1853. He identified to England the same year and later served as a magistrate in Yorkshire.