Thomas Falconer (classical scholar, born 1738)

He was the son of William Falconer, recorder of Chester, by Elizabeth, daughter of Randle Wilbraham de Townsend.

He spent some time at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he matriculated 12 March 1754; but left without taking a degree, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn on 20 June 1760.

He was a friend of John Reinhold Forster, who dedicated to him his translation of Baron Riedesel's Travels through Sicily, and that part of Italy formerly called Magna Græcia, London, 1773.

He read in 1791 before the Society of Antiquaries a paper in vindication of the accuracy of Pliny's description of the temple of Diana at Ephesus.

[2] A work by him entitled ‘Chronological Tables, beginning with the Reign of Solomon and ending with the Death of Alexander the Great,’ appeared at Oxford in 1796, edited by Frodsham Hodson.