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The following is the entry for Byron Charles Ferdinand Plantagenet Cary in William O'Byrnes 1849 'Naval Biographical Dictionary'.
CARY. (Commander, 1835.) The Honourable Byron Charles Ferdinand Plantagenet Cary, born 5 Oct. 1808, is youngest son of the eighth Viscount Falkland, and brother of the Hon. P. P. Cary, Capt. R.N.This officer entered the Navy 10 Aug. 1820; passed his examination in 1829; obtained his first commission 13 Dec. 1830; served in the Dublin 50, Capt. Lord Jas. Townshend, on the South American station, from 4 April, 1831, until paid off in 1834; was next appointed, 15 April, 1835, to the Magicienne 24, Capt. Geo. Wm. St. John Mildmay, off Lisbon; rose to his present rank 10 Dec. 1835; and afterwards commanded the Bittern 16, for the suppression of the slave-trafiic on the coast of Africa, from 5 May, 1841, until the spring of 1843. He has since been on half-pay. Commander Cary married, 19 Feb. 1844, Selina, daughter of the late Rev. F. Fox, of Foxhall, co. Longford, Ireland. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell. |
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