Thomas Falconer (scholar)
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Thomas Falconer was an English clergyman and classical scholar.
, he was born on 24 December 1772, and educated at the cathedral school, Chester
, the grammar school in Bath, the high school, Manchester, The King's School, Chester
, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford
. He was a precocious boy, and some of his verses were published in ‘Prolusiones Poeticæ,’ Chester, 1788. The same year he was elected to a scholarship at Corpus Christi, where he graduated B.A. in 1791, and took the M.A. degree and a fellowship in 1795.
After taking holy orders he spent some years at Edinburgh studying medicine. He took his M.B. and M.D. degrees at Oxford in 1822. He never practised medicine, nor, except for a short time as locum tenens, did he do any ordinary clerical duty. He was, however, select preacher before the university of Oxford on several occasions, and he was Bampton lecturer in 1810.
He died at Bath on 19 February 1839. Falconer married Frances, daughter of Lieutenant-colonel Robert Raitt, by whom he had issue, besides one son and three daughters who died in his lifetime, four sons who survived him, viz. Thomas Falconer, William Falconer, Alexander Pytts Falconer, and Randle Wilbraham Falconer
.
Falconer also contributed notes on the Psalms to Warner's edition of the Book of Common Prayer. He left in manuscript a translation of Strabo (see William Falconer).
Life
The son of William Falconer, M.D., F.R.S., of Bath, Somerset by Henrietta, daughter of Thomas Edmunds of Worsborough Hall, YorkshireYorkshire
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, he was born on 24 December 1772, and educated at the cathedral school, Chester
Chester
Chester is a city in Cheshire, England. Lying on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales, it is home to 77,040 inhabitants, and is the largest and most populous settlement of the wider unitary authority area of Cheshire West and Chester, which had a population of 328,100 according to the...
, the grammar school in Bath, the high school, Manchester, The King's School, Chester
The King's School, Chester
The King's School, Chester is a British coeducational independent 7-18 school situated just outside the city of Chester. It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference....
, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Corpus Christi College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom...
. He was a precocious boy, and some of his verses were published in ‘Prolusiones Poeticæ,’ Chester, 1788. The same year he was elected to a scholarship at Corpus Christi, where he graduated B.A. in 1791, and took the M.A. degree and a fellowship in 1795.
After taking holy orders he spent some years at Edinburgh studying medicine. He took his M.B. and M.D. degrees at Oxford in 1822. He never practised medicine, nor, except for a short time as locum tenens, did he do any ordinary clerical duty. He was, however, select preacher before the university of Oxford on several occasions, and he was Bampton lecturer in 1810.
He died at Bath on 19 February 1839. Falconer married Frances, daughter of Lieutenant-colonel Robert Raitt, by whom he had issue, besides one son and three daughters who died in his lifetime, four sons who survived him, viz. Thomas Falconer, William Falconer, Alexander Pytts Falconer, and Randle Wilbraham Falconer
Randle Wilbraham Falconer
Randle Wilbraham Falconer was a British medical writer.-Life:Falconer was the fourth son of Thomas Falconer, M.D. . He was for many years one of the leading physicians of Bath, Somerset, where his grandfather, William Falconer, had also practised. He began the study of medicine at Edinburgh...
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Works
Falconer published:- ‘The Voyage of Hanno, translated and accompanied with the Greek text and dissertations,’ Oxford, 1797.
- ‘The Resurrection of our Saviour ascertained from an Examination of the Proofs of the Identity of His Character after that Event,’ Bath, 1798.
- ‘The Tocsin; or an Appeal to Good Sense, by the Rev. L. Dutens,’ translated, &c. London, 1798.
- ‘Remarks on some Passages in Mr. Bryant's Publications respecting the War of Troy,’ London, 1799.
- ‘St. Luke's Preface to his Gospel examined with reference to Mr. Marsh's hypothesis respecting the origin of the three first Gospels,’ Bath, 1802.
- ‘A Letter to the Rev. R. Warner respecting his Sermon on War,’ Oxford, 1804.
- ‘Discourse on the Measure of the Olympic Stadium’ (the joint work of himself and his father, appended to the latter's translation of ArrianArrianLucius Flavius Arrianus 'Xenophon , known in English as Arrian , and Arrian of Nicomedia, was a Roman historian, public servant, a military commander and a philosopher of the 2nd-century Roman period...
's ‘Periplus’), Oxford, 1805. - ‘Strabonis Rerum Geographicarum libri xvii., Græce et Latine,’ &c., Oxford, 1807, fol. This work was based on materials left by his uncle, Thomas Falconer (1738–1792). The first two books had been seen through the press by John ParsonsJohn Parsons (bishop)John Parsons was an English churchman and academic, Master of Balliol College, Oxford from 1798, and Bishop of Peterborough from 1813.-Life:...
, and five more had been edited by Halliwell when, in 1802, Falconer undertook to complete it, which he did in 1807. - ‘Communication to Dr. Vincent on the Articles of Commerce mentioned in the Digest,’ inserted in the appendix to Dr. Vincent's edition of Arrian's ‘Periplus,’ 1807.
- ‘A Sermon preached before the University of Oxford,’ Oxford, 1810.
- ‘Certain Principles in Evanson's “Dissonance of the four generally received Evangelists,” &c. examined in eight discourses delivered before the University of Oxford at the lecture founded by the Rev. J. Bampton,’ Oxford, 1811. On Edward EvansonEdward Evanson-Life:He was born at Warrington, Lancashire. After graduating at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and taking holy orders, he spent several years as curate at Mitcham in Surrey. In 1768 he became vicar of South Mimms near Barnet; and in November 1769 he was presented to the rectory of Tewkesbury, with...
. - Review of the French translation of StraboStraboStrabo, also written Strabon was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher.-Life:Strabo was born to an affluent family from Amaseia in Pontus , a city which he said was situated the approximate equivalent of 75 km from the Black Sea...
(‘Quarterly Review,’ May 1811). - Two letters to the editor of the ‘Gentleman's Magazine’ upon the articles in the ‘Edinburgh Review’ relating to the Oxford ‘Strabo,’ July 1809 and April 1810 (‘Gent. Mag.’ 1809, pt. ii. 923, 1810, pt. ii. 227), published separately, Oxford, 1811.
- ‘A Sermon upon the Folly and Criminality of attempts to Search into Futurity,’ Oxford, 1812.
- ‘An Assize Sermon upon Oaths, their Nature, Obligations, and Influence,’ Oxford, 1813.
- ‘Outlines of a Plan for Building twenty-five Churches and Chapels’ (in the ‘Pamphleteer,’ vol. vi.), 1816.
- ‘A Sermon upon the Temptation and Resurrection of our Lord, preached before the University of Oxford,’ Oxford, 1817.
- ‘The Case of Eusebius examined,’ Oxford, 1818.
- A funeral sermon, Oxford, 1821.
- ‘The Absurd Hypothesis that Eusebius of Cæsarea, Bishop and Historian, was an Editor or Corrupter of the Holy Scriptures; in a second part of the Case of Eusebius,’ Oxford, 1823.
- ‘The Cottage Land Worker,’ Bath, 1830.
Falconer also contributed notes on the Psalms to Warner's edition of the Book of Common Prayer. He left in manuscript a translation of Strabo (see William Falconer).