Frederick Falkiner

Sir Frederick Richard Falkiner QC (1831 – 23 March 1908) was an Irish lawyer, judge and author.

Sir Frederick was the third son of Richard Falkiner, of Mount Falcon, County Tipperary and was educated at the University of Dublin, from which he graduated in 1852, the same year that he was called to the Irish Bar. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1867 and was appointed as Law Adviser to the Dublin Castle administration in 1875.

The following year he was appointed Recorder of Dublin, a judicial position he held for almost three decades. He became a bencher of King's Inns in 1880 and was knighted in 1896.

— in Chapter 12 ("Cyclops") and Chapter 15 ("Circe").

Following his retirement as Recorder of Dublin in June 1905 he was made a member of the Irish Privy Council.

He was also a governor of the Blue Coat School, Oxmantown, Dublin.

He died in retirement at Funchal, Madeira, on 23 March 1908.

His second son, Caesar Litton Falkiner (1863–1908), was a distinguished lawyer and scholar.

Works

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title = The foundation of the Hospital and Free school of King Charles II., Oxmantown Dublin: commonly called the Blue coat school: with notices of some of its governors, and of contemporary events in Dublin from the foundation, 1668 to 1840, when its government by the city ceased
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* Falkiner, Frederick Richard "Essay on the portraits of Swift" in Vol xii, cite book
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title = Literary miscellanies [of] Sir F.R. Falkiner, collected by his daughter May
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References

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volume = xlii
pages = 78