William Falconer

William Falconer (February 23, 1744 - August 31, 1824) was an English physician, writer, and also a member of the Royal Society. Falconer was born in Chester on February 23, 1744, the youngest of the two surviving sons of William Falconer of the Inner Temple recording Chester, married to his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of Randle Wilbraham Falconer from Townsend, near Nantwich, Cheshire. He studied medicine in Edinburgh, where he received his doctorate in medicine in 1766. From Edinburgh, he went to Leiden, where he attended the lectures of Jerome David Gaubius and Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, which was held there on May 28, 1767. He was previously admitted on March 12, 1767, was admitted to the Royal College of Physicians. In the same year, he was appointed a doctor in the Chester Infirmary. After setting up a good practice in Chester, Falconer, at the suggestion of Dr. John Fothergill, was sent to Bath, Somerset, in January 1770, where he also succeeded. March 18, 1773, he became F.R.S. On May 12, 1784, he was elected a doctor at the Baton General Hospital, an appointment that he kept until February 10, 1819. In 1800, he was elected Honorary Corresponding Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He died at his circus house. Bath, August 31, 1824, and was buried in Weston, near the city. His wife, Henrietta, daughter of Thomas Edmund from Warsbrough Hall, Yorkshire, died on September 10, 1803. He left the son of Thomas Falconer. His portrait of Daniel was engraved by James Fittler.