William Falconer (writer)

William Falconer (23 February 1744 – 31 August 1824) was an English physician, miscellaneous writer, and also Fellow of the Royal Society.

[1] From Edinburgh he went to Leyden, where he attended the lectures of Hieronymus David Gaubius and Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, proceeding M.D.

After building up a good practice in Chester, Falconer, at the suggestion of Dr. John Fothergill, removed to Bath, Somerset in January 1770, where he was equally successful.

Falconer was close to Samuel Parr, who procured from the Cambridge University Press the publication of his 'Miscellaneous Tracts,’ 1793, and who wrote of him in his 'Remarks on the Statement of Dr. Combe,’ pp.

Edmund Burke addressed a letter to Falconer, dated 14 Nov. 1790, thanking him 'for the temperate, judicious, and reasonable paper [on the French revolution] which appeared in the Bath prints some time since.'