Philip Cary (officer of arms)

Philip Cary
Born(1895-09-24)24 September 1895
Died21 June 1968(1968-06-21) (aged 72)
Spouse
Esther Leon
(m. 1920)
Children1
FatherByron Cary
RelativesLucius Cary (brother)
Lucius Cary (nephew)
Military career
AllegianceEngland
RankMajor
UnitGrenadier Guards
Battles / warsWorld War I

Major Hon Philip Plantagenet Cary, FSA (24 September 1895 – 21 June 1968) was an officer of arms 1913-1932. He was Bluemantle Pursuivant 1919-1923 and York Herald 1923-1932. He was the third son of Byron Cary, 12th Viscount Falkland.[1][2]

He married 20 March 1920 Esther Mildred Leon (born 16 December 1899), only daughter of Sir George Edward Leon, 2nd Bt., by his first wife Mildred Ethel Jennings, daughter of Louis John Jennings MP, and had a daughter named Mary Philippa (31 March 1922 - 11 November 2014) who had three children by her marriage to Henry Desmond Graham Prittie, 6th Baron Dunalley (1912 - 1992).

Educated Eton College. Fought in the First World War. Major, Grenadier Guards.[3]

  1. ^ ‘CARY, Hon. Philip Plantagenet’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 19 July 2013
  2. ^ Cracroft's Peerage.
  3. ^ thepeerage.com