John Downie Falconer FRSE FGS FRGS (1876 – 1947) was a Scottish geologist and geographer linked to colonial Africa.
[2] He then went to Edinburgh to act as Prof James Geikie’s assistant, before accepting a role overseeing the official mineral survey of Nigeria in 1904.
His proposers were James Geikie, John Horne, Ben Peach and Ramsay Heatley Traquair.
[1] During the First World War he was requested by the Colonial Office to act as Assistant District Commissioner for Nigeria, a relatively high-level responsibility.
His daughter Dora Janet Burman Falconer (1911-2010) became a surgeon and served as a rare female doctor in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War in East Africa rising to Lt Colonel.