Sentence Examples with the word Falconer



In 1615 he was appointed commander of the Louvre and counsellor, and the following year grand falconer of France.

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The public buildings include the town hall, a fine and commodious house on the site of the old tolbooth; the Falconer museum, containing among other exhibits several valuable fossils, and named after Dr Hugh Falconer (1808-1865), the distinguished palaeontologist and botanist, a native of the town; the mechanics' institute; the agricultural and market hall; Leanchoil hospital and Anderson's Institution for poor boys.

His first conspicuous success was achieved in 1862 with David Elginbrod, the forerunner of a number of popular novels, which include Alec Forbes of Howglen (1865), Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood (1866), Robert Falconer (1868), Malcolm (1875), The Marquis of Lossie (1877), and Donal Grant (1883).

He was later promoted to be royal falconer and is said to have afterwards become a servant in the household of Sir Thomas Lovell.

There is an excellent bibliography by Falconer Madan (1887).