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Robert Falconer - Wikipedia

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The Reverend Sir Robert Falconer KCMG FRSC


5th President of the University of Toronto
In office 1907–1932
Preceded by	James Loudon
Succeeded by	Henry John Cody
President of the Royal Society of Canada
In office 1931–1932
Preceded by	Charles Camsell
Succeeded by	Francis Ernest Lloyd

Personal details
Born	(1867-02-10)February 10, 1867 Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Died	November 4, 1943(1943-11-04) (aged 76)
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh

Sir Robert Alexander Falconer KCMG FRSC (10 February 1867 – 4 November 1943) was a Canadian academic, Calvinist and bible scholar.

Early life

Of Scottish descent, Falconer was born on February 10, 1867, in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, the eldest child of a Presbyterian minister and his wife. He attended high school in Port of Spain, Trinidad while his father was posted there^[1] and won a scholarship to the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.^[2] He graduated MA in 1889 and then spent three years at the divinity school of the Free Church of Scotland.

Career

Falconer was ordained in 1892 but never held a clerical position. He returned to Canada that year and took a lecturership in New Testament Greek and exegesis at the Presbyterian College in Halifax.^[3] He also began to publish articles in learned journals. In 1902 Falconer received a D.Litt. from Edinburgh University.^[4]

Advocacy and knighthood

In 1907 he became president of the University of Toronto. He steered a middle path, combining pure scholarship with practicality. Thus he introduced more vocational subjects, while also developing higher degree programmes. He sought to maximise the independence of the university, battling unsuccessfully to retain German faculty members in 1914. Nonetheless he was knighted in 1917 for his advocacy of wartime recruitment. Falconer believed in the need to increase public awareness of, and accessibility to, Canada's historical records. He was a long time member of The Champlain Society's Council, serving as its Vice-President (1909-1935) and President (1936-42).^[5]

Falconer wrote several books on current affairs, including The German Tragedy and its Meaning for Canada (1915),^[6] Idealism in National Character (1920) and The United States as a Neighbour (1925). He was an advocate of broad cooperation between the English speaking nations in international affairs, but was concerned to avoid American dominance of these relationships.

Retirement and death

Ill health obliged him to decline the principalship of the University of Edinburgh in 1929, and he retired in 1932. However he continued his scholarly work, becoming the first President of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies in 1933 and producing Pastoral Epistles in 1937, his most notable work of religious scholarship.

Falconer died at the age of 76, on November 4, 1943.

Honours

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1916).^[7]
Yale University, Honorary Doctorate (1922).^[8]
University of Alberta, Honorary Doctorate (1936).^[9]

Sources

Greenlee, James G. (1988). Sir Robert Falconer: A Biography. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4426-7997-9. OCLC 244767816.

References

^ "Robert Alexander Falconer(1867-1943)". www.marianopolis.edu. Retrieved September 28, 2013.
^ A. B. Mckillop. "Sir Robert Alexander Falconer". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
^ Greenlee 1988, p. 48.
^ Falconer, Robert Alexander (1902). "Introductory studies to the epistles of Second Peter and Jude". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ The Champlain Society. "Former Officers of the Champlain Society (1905-2012)". Retrieved 19 October 2014.
^ Greenlee 1988, p. 215.
^ Proceedings and transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. 1917. p. 3.
^ "Yale Bestows Academic Honors; Sir Robert Falconer, Professor Chittenden and E.A. Robinson Receive Degrees," New York Times. June 22, 1922.
^ "Past Honorary Degree Recipients | Chancellor and Senate". www.ualberta.ca. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
^ "Law School Buildings | University of Toronto Faculty of Law". www.law.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2023-02-12.

External links

Robert Alexander Falconer archival papers held at the University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services
Works by Robert Alexander Falconer at Faded Page (Canada)

Professional and academic associations
Preceded by Charles Camsell	President of the Royal Society of Canada 1931–1932	Succeeded by Francis Ernest Lloyd

v t e Presidents of the University of Toronto
John Strachan (1827) John McCaul (1848) Daniel Wilson (1889) James Loudon (1892) Robert Falconer (1907) Henry John Cody (1932) Sidney Earle Smith (1945) Claude Bissell (1958) John Robert Evans (1972) James Milton Ham (1978) David Strangway (1983) George Connell (1984) Robert Prichard (1990) Robert Birgeneau (2000) David Naylor (2005) Meric Gertler (2013)

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