Frederick Falkiner (judge)

Sir Frederick Richard Falkiner PC QC (1831 – 23 March 1908) was an Irish lawyer, judge and author.

In 1876 he was appointed recorder of Dublin, on the death of Sir Frederick Shaw, and earned a reputation for humanity.

Falkiner was one of the most prominent members of the general synod of the Church of Ireland, and in the debates of that body, especially on financial questions, he frequently intervened with much effect.

[2] Falkiner was notoriously anti-Jewish in his judgements, which was most visible, when he was a judge in a case against Henry Kahn (Jewish grandfather of Irish actress Dervla Kirwan) in 1902.

Following his retirement as Recorder of Dublin in June 1905, he was made a member of the Irish Privy Council.