His works are:
- ‘The Refutation of the Errors of John Thrusk,’ St. Omer, 1618, 4to, under the initials B. D.
- ‘Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary,’ St. Omer, 1632, 12mo, also under the initials B. D.
- ‘The Looking-glass of Conscience,’ St. Omer, 1632, 18mo, a translation under the initials I. F.
- An English translation of ‘Fasciculus Myrrhæ de Passione Domini,’ St. Omer, 1632, under the initials I. F.
- ‘The admirable Life of St. Wenefride’ (St. Omer), 1635, 12mo, translated, under the initials I. F., from the Latin of Robert, prior of Shrewsbury. A reprint, for the use of pilgrims to the holy spring, appeared in 1712, 12mo, sine loco, under the title of ‘The Life and Miracles of St. Wenefride, Virgin, Martyr, and Abbess, Patroness of Wales.’ It is said in the preface to this edition that the translation was really made by John Flood, alias Alford, alias Griffith [see Alford, Michael] (cf. Oliver, Jesuit Collections, p. 43).
- ‘Life of St. Catharine of Sweden,’ St. Omer, 1635, 18mo, a translation under the initials I. F.
- ‘Life of St. Anne,’ manuscript.
[Southwell's Bibl. Scriptorum Soc. Jesu, p. 445; Foley's Records, iii. 522, vi. 215, vii. 242; Oliver's Jesuit Collections, p. 88; Oliver's Catholic Religion in Cornwall, p. 299; Dodd's Church Hist. iii. 105; De Backer's Bibl. des Écrivains de la Compagnie de Jésus (1869), vol. i. 1787; Gillow's Bibl. Dict. ii. 23, iii. 59; Cat. of Printed Books in Brit. Mus.]
FALCONER, RANDLE WILBRAHAM (1816–1881), medical writer, fourth son of Thomas Falconer, M.D. (1772–1839) [q. v.], born in 1816, was for many years one of the leading physicians of Bath, where his grandfather, William Falconer, M.D. (1744–1824) [q. v.], had also practised. He began the study of medicine at Edinburgh in 1835, and graduated there in 1839. At first he settled at Tenby, but in 1847 he moved to Bath, where he continued to practise till his death. He was a man of varied knowledge and accomplishments, fond of archæology and botany, and so much esteemed by his fellow-citizens that they elected him mayor in 1857. In addition to his Edinburgh doctorate, he held the honorary title of doctor from the Queen's University, Ireland, 1879, and that of fellow from the King and Queen's College, Dublin, and was a fellow of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of London. In 1878, when the British Medical Association met at Bath, he was elected president. He died 6 May 1881. As physician to the Bath General or Mineral Water Hospital he bestowed much attention on the curative virtues of the baths, and his work on ‘The Baths and Mineral Waters’ reached a fifth edition in 1871. Other publications were the following: ‘Reports of Cures at the Bath General Hospital,’ 1860; ‘The Bath Mineral Waters,’ &c., 1861; and in the same year he contributed cases to the ‘British Medical Journal.’
[Address of the President of the Med.-Chir. Soc.; Medical Directory.]
FALCONER, THOMAS (1738–1792), classical scholar, son of William Falconer, recorder of Chester, by Elizabeth, daughter of Randle Wilbraham de Townsend, resided for some time at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he matriculated 12 March 1754, but left without taking a degree, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn on 20 June 1760. Being precluded by chronic ill-health from practising at the bar, he lived a life of studious retirement at Chester. He took much interest in antiquities, and in his way was a patron of literature, so that he was called (by Miss Seward) the Mæcenas of Chester. It was to him that in 1771 Foote Gower addressed his lengthy letter entitled ‘A Sketch of the Materials for a New History of Cheshire.’ He was a friend of John Reinhold Forster, who dedicated to him his translation of Baron Riedesel's ‘Travels through Sicily, and that part of Italy formerly called Magna Græcia,’ London, 1773, 8vo. He died on 4 Sept. 1792, and was buried in St. Michael's Church, Chester. A monument with a laudatory inscription in St. John's Church, Chester, perpetuates his memory. He never married. Falconer published ‘Devotions for the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, by a Layman,’ London, 1786; 2nd ed. 1798, 8vo. He read in 1791 before the Society of Antiquaries a paper in vindication of the accuracy of Pliny's description of the temple of Diana at Ephesus, which was published in 1794 under the title ‘Observations on Pliny's account of the Temple of Diana at Ephesus,’ in ‘Archæologia,’ xi. 1–21. A work by him entitled ‘Chronological Tables, beginning with the Reign of Solomon and ending with the Death of Alexander the Great,’ appeared at Oxford in 1796, 4to. He also left materials for an edition of Strabo, which formed the basis of the edition brought out in 1807 by his nephew, the Rev. Thomas Falconer, M.D. [q. v.] He was also the author of an ‘Ode to Sleep,’ the date of publication of which is uncertain.
[Thomas Falconer's Bibliography of the Writings of the Falconer Family, with biographical notices; Ormerod's Cheshire, i. 321; Letters of Anna Seward, iii. 167.]
FALCONER, THOMAS, M.D. (1772–1839), classical scholar, son of William Falconer [q. v.], M.D., F.R.S., of Bath, by Henrietta, daughter of Thomas Edmunds of Wors-
