FALCONAR, Chesborough Grant. Ensign 36 foot 1 Sep. 1795; major 78 foot 26 June 1823 to 22 Oct. 1825 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 22 foot 25 Nov. 1828 to 18 Oct. 1839; inspecting field officer 18 Oct. 1839 to 11 Nov. 1851; col. 73 foot 11 Feb. 1857 to death; L.G. 20 July 1858; K.H. 1837. d. Hazelbank near Edinburgh 10 Jany. 1860.
FALCONER, Edmund, stage name of Edmund O’Rourke. b. Dublin 1814; acted in the provinces many years; lessee with B. Webster of Lyceum theatre, London, Aug. 1858 to April 1859; played Danny Man in The Colleen Bawn at Adelphi theatre 231 nights from 18 July 1860; lessee of Lyceum again 1861 where his Irish drama Peep o’ Day ran from 9 Nov. 1861 to Dec. 1862; lessee with F. B. Chatterton of Drury Lane 1863 to 26 Sep. 1866 where he lost all his money; played in America 1867–70; author of Memories, poems 1863; Murmurings in the May and Summer of Manhood, O’Ruark’s Bride and Man’s Missions, poems 1865 and of many dramas, librettos and songs. d. 28 Keppel st. Russell sq. London 29 Sep. 1879. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1879) 116–20; Illust. sporting and dramatic news 4 Dec. 1875 pp. 233–4.
FALCONER, Forbes (2 son of Gilbert Falconer of Braeside, Fifeshire). b. Aberdeen 10 Sep. 1805; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Marischal college; teacher of Oriental languages in London; professor of Oriental languages in Univ. college, London; author of Selections from the “Bôstan of Sâdi” in Persian 1838; Persian Grammar, 2 ed. 1848. d. 40 Dorset st. Portman sq. London 7 Nov. 1853.
FALCONER, Hugh (youngest child of David Falconer of Forres, Elginshire). b. Forres 29 Feb. 1808; ed. at Forres gr. sch. and King’s coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1826; studied medicine at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1829; assist. surgeon in the H.E.I.Co.’s service 1830; superintendent of Botanic garden at Suharunpoor, North Western provinces 1832; awarded Wollaston medal of Geol. Society 1837; returned to England on sick leave 1842, went out again 20 Dec. 1847; superintendent of Calcutta botanic garden, and professor of botany in the medical college, June 1847 to 1855; F.G.S. 1842, foreign sec. 1861 to death; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1845; author of Descriptive catalogue of the fossil remains from the Sewalik hills, Calcutta 1859. d. Park crescent, London 31 Jany. 1865. C. Murchison’s Palæontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer (1868) vol. 1, pp. xxiii-liii, portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. xv, 14–20 (1867); Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxi, 45–49 (1865).
FALCONER, Randle Wilbraham (youngest son of Rev. Thomas Falconer of Bath 1772–1839). b. 29 Circus, Bath 1816; studied at Edin., M.D. 1839; practised at Tenby 1839–47, at Bath 1847 to death; physician of Bath united hospital 12 Feb. 1849; physician of Bath mineral water hospital 28 Feb. 1856; mayor of Bath 1857–59; author of The baths and mineral waters of Bath, 6 ed. 1880, and other books. d. Bennett st. Bath 6 May 1881.
FALCONER, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. 25 June 1805; barrister L.I. 8 Feb. 1830; revising barrister for boroughs of Finsbury, Tower Hamlets and Marylebone 1837–1840; one of arbitrators to settle boundary of Canada and New Brunswick, Oct. 1850; colonial sec. of Western Australia 29 July 1851; judge of county courts circuit 30, (Brecknock and Glamorgan) 22 Dec. 1851 to Dec. 1881 when he retired on pension; aided in abolishing Duke of Beaufort’s gaol at Swansea; author of On Surnames and the rules of law affecting their change, Cardiff 1862 privately printed, 2 ed. London 1862, Supplement 1863 and 7 other books. d. Royal crescent, Bath 28 Aug. 1882 in 77 year. T. Falconer’s Bibliography of the Falconer family (1866) 20–30; The Red Dragon ii, 193–98 (1882), portrait.
FALCONER, Rev. William (brother of the preceding). b. Corston, Somerset 27 Dec. 1801; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox.; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1827; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1827 to 18 July 1839, public examiner 1832–3 and 1836–8; R. of Bushey, Herts. 26 Jany. 1839 to death; translated with H. C. Hamilton for Bohn’s Classical Library The Geography of Strabo 3 vols. 1854–57. d. Bushey rectory 9 Feb. 1885.
FALKLAND, Lucius Bentinck Cary, 10 Viscount (eld. child of Charles John Cary, 9 Viscount Falkland 1768–1809). b. 5 Nov. 1803; succeeded his father who d. of wounds received in a duel 2 March 1809; a lord of the bedchamber to Wm. iv, Dec. 1830; a representative peer for Scotland 1831–32; G.C.H. 1831; created Baron Hunsdon of Skutterskelfe, co. York in peerage of the U.K. 15 May 1832; P.C. 1 March 1837; governor of Nova Scotia 1840–1846; captain of yeomen of the guard 24 July 1846 to 16 Feb. 1848; governor of Bombay 1 Feb. 1848 to Dec. 1853, took his seat 1 May 1848. d. Montpellier, France 12 March 1884.
FALKNER, George. b. Edinburgh 1817; edited Bradshaw’s Manchester Journal from first number 1 May 1841; typographer and lithographer at Manchester to death; published his own Notes on Algiers 1852, and A pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Loreto 1882. d. The Oaklands, Timperley near Manchester 31 Dec. 1882.
FALLON, James Thomas. b. Athlone 1823; went to Sydney, N.S.W. 1842; bought a vineyard at Albury about 1859; his wines took first prize at Vienna exhibition 1873 and London exhibition 1875; made champagne from Australian grapes 1876; had largest vineyards and cellars in Australia; member of legislative assembly of N.S.W. 1869–72. d. Manly near Sydney 27 May 1886.