 In 1791 he was sent by the Anti-Slavery Society to Granville Town, Sierra Leone, a community of freed slaves, where he died a year later in 1792.Falconbridge was born around 1760 in England or Scotland, possibly Prestonpans or Bristol.The British surgeon Alexander Falconbridge served as a ship's surgeon on four slave trade voyages between 1780 and 1787 before rejecting the slave trade and becoming an abolitionist.