Born at Manchester, October 1876, he was educated at Owens College, took first-class honours at qualification and won the Bradley medal in clinical surgery. He was a house surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, senior resident medical officer at the Royal Manchester Hospital for Children, and resident surgical officer at the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich. He was appointed assistant surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Bolton in 1911, becoming surgeon in 1921 and consulting surgeon when he retired in 1936. He was responsible for great advances in the Infirmary, designing the Barnes and Cooper wards and founding the genito-urinary and massage departments. During the first world war he served in the RAMC in Mesopotamia and France. Falconer was an energetic and efficient man; his recreations, golf and bridge, were also pursued with verve and ability. He practised at Markland Hill Lane and lived at Parkfield House, Chorley New Road, Bolton. He died in hospital on 26 December 1961 aged 85, survived by his son and grandchildren. His wife had died about a year before. Publications: Femoral hernia in which the vermiform appendix was the sole content of the sac. *Medical Chronicle* 1905, 42, 298. Intussusception: fallacies and dangers of inflation treatment. *Lancet* 1906, 2, 652. Delayed chloroform poisoning, with E D Telford. *Lancet* 1906, 2, 1341. A case of Stokes-Adams disease. *Brit med J* 1912, 2, 1804.