[2] He was a cousin of the politician Daniel Falkiner,[3] and on his mother's side of the writer Anna, Lady Miller, née Riggs.
He sat in the Irish House of Commons for Clonakilty from 1768 to 1776 and subsequently for Castlemartyr to 1783.
[1] On 24 August 1778, he was created a baronet, of Anne Mount, in the County of Cork.
[2] Falkiner died in 1797 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his only surviving son Samuel.
[5] His daughter Elizabeth married Attiwell Wood, a prominent local barrister who, no doubt through a family arrangement, represented the same two constituencies as his father-in-law between 1769 and 1783.