About Philip Cary
Lived 1895 – 1968 (aged 72). Philip Cary was a British military personnel.
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.
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.
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British Army officer
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Philip Cary was born on 24 September 1895.
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Philip Cary died on 21 June 1968.
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Philip Cary was a military personnel.
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Philip Cary was British.
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