Falconer was the eldest son of the Reverend
Thomas Falconer, by Frances, only child of Lieutenant-colonel
Robert Raitt. He was born in
Corston, Somersetshire, on 27 December 1801, and was baptised there on 21 July 1802. On 10 December 1819, he matriculated at
Oriel College, Oxford, and having taken a third class in classics and a first class in mathematics graduated B.A. in 1823 and proceeded M.A. in 1827. He was elected a Petrean fellow of
Exeter College, Oxford, on 30 June that year and was mathematical examiner in the university from 1832 to 1833 and again from 1836 to 1838. In 1839, he opened the Petrean fellowships at Exeter College to natives of
Cheshire by conveying a small incorporeal hereditament to Lord Petre for that purpose. His college presented him, on 26 January 1839, to the rectory of
Bushey, Hertfordshire. He married in 1840 Isabella, daughter of J. Robinson, and widow of W. S. Douglas; she died at St. Alessi, near
Pistoja in
Tuscany, 7 February 1869. He died at Bushey rectory on 9 February 1885. ==Works==