FALCONER, WILLIAM, ILD. This eminent physician, who resided many years in Path, was the anther of many professional and literary productions, which obtained for him from Dr. Parr the charac ter of "a man whoa° knowledge is various and profound, and whose discriminations upon all topics of literature are ready, vigorous, and comprehensive." He was the son of William Falconer, Recorder of Chatter, was born in 1744, and died in 1821. His numerous books and tracts combine the accurate knowledge of tho physician with the enlarged views of the philosopher. His' Remarks on the Influence of Climate, Situation, Nature of Country, Population, Food, Ac. on the Disposition and Temper, Manners, Laws and Customs, Government, and Religion of Mankind,' 1782, is a work that may be read with advantage ; and so his Dissertation on the Influence of the Passions on the Disorders of the Body,' to which the first Fothergillian gold medal was awarded.
Dr. Falconer's only child, the Rev. Thomas Paseo:out, was born in 1772, and died in 1839. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, of which he was a Fellow, and was Hampton Lecturer in 1810. in 1797 ho published a translation of the ' Periplue of 1 lanno• and be took a large share in editing the Oxford edition of Strabo. Although
occasionally performing the duties of a clergyman, he declined receiv ing any church preferment, and In 1823 took the degree of M.D. at OxfoaL Under his learned father he had made medicine his assiduous ' study ; and during tire years of his long residence at Bath he was unremitting in giving gratuitous' medical advice to all afflicted persons who sought his aid. Passaged of a handsome competency, his private charities were as liberal as they were unostentatious. Ilia second son, • Tumult( FALCONER, was called to the Bar in 1830. He Is the author of many able articles and pamphlets on the public topics of his day, especially on The Oregon Question, on Canadian Affairs, and on Texas„ through which country and Mexico ho travelled in 1841.42. In 1850 he was chosen as one of the arbitrators to determine tho boundaries between the provinces of Canada and New Brunswick. In 1851 he was appointed a Judge of the County Courts of Glamorgan shire, Brecknockshire, and Radnorshire. Descended from a family distinguished by their cultivation of letters, Mr. Thomas Falconer has honourably maintained the reputation of the name he bears.