Mrs Cary nee Joan Sylvia Southey Country Life Magazine Portrait October 16 1926

Mrs Cary nee Joan Sylvia Southey Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, October 16 1926. LX No. 1552

The featured frontispiece this week is a portrait of the Hon. Mrs Cary, whose marriage to the Master of Falkland, eldest son of the Viscount and Viscountess Falkland, took place that week. Mrs Cary was a daughter of Captain and Mrs Charles Bonham Southey.

Joan Sylvia Southey married Lucius Henry Charles Plantagenet Cary, Master of Falkland (later the 14th Viscount Falkland), on October 14, 1926.

• Parents: She was the daughter of Captain Charles Bonham Southey and his wife.
• Husband: Lucius Cary was the eldest son of the 13th Viscount and Viscountess Falkland.
• Children: The couple had two daughters: Elizabeth-Ann Bevil Cary (1927–2014) and Jean Rosemary Vera Cary (1928–2019).
• Later Life: Joan Sylvia and Lucius Cary divorced in 1933. She later became known as Viscountess Falkland and subsequently married John Douglas Gaskell Walker.
• Family Connections: Elizabeth-Ann married Sir William Vernon Hope Nelson, 3rd Baronet, while Jean Rosemary Vera Cary married Captain Henry Herman Evelyn Montagu Winch. Members of the family were later subjects of portraits held by the National Portrait Gallery.
• Succession: The 15th Viscount Falkland, Lucius Edward William Plantagenet Cary, was born of the 14th Viscount’s second marriage.

This is an authentic original page from Country Life magazine, part of the iconic series often affectionately referred to as the “Girls in Pearls” portraits — elegant society images that captured a distinctive era of British publishing and portraiture.

Size: Approximately 13.75 x 9 inches (35 x 23 cm)

Condition: Very good for its age. As with all vintage magazine pages, light signs of handling or minor age-related blemishes may be present. Please review the large photo carefully for full condition details.

This original Country Life Magazine frontispiece portrait forms part of The Old Map Shop’s curated archive of society portraits published between 1897 and 2026.