Fauconbridge was still occupied with state affairs. It is not certain how long he held the treasurership. Under 1222 Matthew Paris mentions the death of William of Ely, treasurer of England, which suggests that Eustace gave it up on becoming bishop, but no other treasurer is mentioned till 1231 (Dugdale, Chronica Series, pp. 9–10), and William had been Fauconbridge's predecessor. In 1223 and in 1225 he was sent on embassies to France (Rot. Claus. i. 556, ii. 41). On the former occasion he was commissioned to demand Normandy from Louis VIII on his accession. The bishop and his colleagues ultimately met the king at Compiègne, whence they brought back to Henry an unfavourable answer (Matt. Paris, iii. 77; Coggeshall, p. 197; Ann. Dunstable, p. 81). In 1224 Fauconbridge was appointed to keep Falkes de Breauté in custody after the surrender of Bedford Castle (Matt. Paris, iii. 87).
As soon as he became bishop Fauconbridge attempted to exercise jurisdiction over the abbot and monks of Westminster. The resistance of the latter led to an appeal to the pope, and ultimately to a reference of the dispute to arbitrators, of whom Archbishop Langton was the chief. The arbitrators decided that the abbey was entirely exempt from the bishop's jurisdiction. They assigned the manor of Sunbury, about which there had also been a dispute, to the bishop, and the church of Sunbury to the chapter of St. Paul's, who had joined their bishop in the suit (ib. iii. 67, 75). He also engaged in a quarrel with the monks of Coggeshall with regard to the advowson of Coggeshall Church (Newcourt, ii. 159). In 1225 Fauconbridge attested the confirmation of Magna Carta (Ann. Burton. p. 231). He died on 2 Nov. 1228 (Ann. London. p. 28), and was buried in his cathedral (Matt. Paris, iii. 164), to which he had been a liberal benefactor. His epitaph is given by Weever from a Cottonian manuscript (Ancient Funerall Monuments, p. 359). He is described as in every way commendable and discreet (Walter de Coventry, ii. 249).
[Matthew Paris, vol. iii.; R. Coggeshall; Annales Monastici; Chronicles of Edward I and Edward II (all in Rolls Ser.); Rot. Claus.; Excerpta e Rot. Finium (both published by Record Commission); Newcourt's Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Lond.; Foss's Judges of England, ii. 324–5.]
FAULKNER, Sir ARTHUR BROOKE, M.D. (1779–1845), physician to the forces, born in 1779, was the youngest son of Hugh Faulkner of Castletown, co. Carlow, his mother having been a Cole of the family of Enniskillen. He entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1795, and in due course graduated B.A., having taken lectures on chemistry and anatomy together with dissections in his curriculum. He then entered as a medical student at Edinburgh, graduating M.D. in 1803. His next two years were spent in London in attendance at the London Hospital, the Westminster Hospital, and the Surrey Dispensary. In 1805 he was incorporated B.A. of Catharine Hall, Cambridge, by virtue of his Dublin degree, and M.A. the same year; his Cambridge M.A. degree served to procure him the ad eundem degree of his alma mater (Dublin), and finally he used his M.A. degree of Dublin to get incorporated M.B. of Pembroke College, Oxford, on 11 July 1806, and M.D. the day after. In 1807 he became a candidate of the College of Physicians of London, and was elected fellow in 1808. He was appointed physician to the forces and served on the staff in Spain, Holland, Sicily, and Malta. In 1810 he published a tract, ‘Considerations on the Expediency of Establishing an Hospital for Officers on Foreign Service.’ He was at Malta when the plague was introduced there in 1813 (after an interval of 140 years) by a vessel from Alexandria; he distinguished himself by tracing the spread of the disease, by his vigorous advocacy of the doctrine of contagion, and by directing the quarantine procedure whereby the disease was kept within bounds. Returning to England he was knighted in February 1815 and appointed physician to the Duke of Sussex. He communicated his experiences of plague to the ‘Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal,’ April 1814, gave evidence in favour of its contagiousness before the House of Commons' committee in 1819, and published a full account of the Malta outbreak in 1820 (‘Treatise on the Plague,’ &c. 8vo, London). Having retired from the service in 1815, he settled as a physician at Cheltenham, and died at his residence at Evington, near Cheltenham, 23 May 1845, aged 66. In 1810 he married a daughter of Mr. Donald M'Leod.
Apart from his profession he was known as an entertaining narrator of continental travel. He published three works of that kind: ‘Rambling Notes and Reflections,’ London, 1827 (visit to France); ‘Visit to Germany and the Low Countries,’ 1829–30–1831, 2 vols. London, 1833; and ‘Letters to Lord Brougham,’ London, 1837 (visit to Italy). These writings are excellent of their kind, and are interspersed with many remarks on home affairs, which, as he says, ‘have no more to do with a tour to Paris than with the discovery of the north-west passage,’ but are inserted with ‘an atrocious obstinacy proceeding from the hope of doing
