Surname: Falconer Forename(s): Alexander Nationality: Scottish.
Poet. Worked as assistant apothecary at age 13, then in schools for working-class
children. Became head of Mossbank Industrial School in 1879. Author of Scottish Pastorals and Ballads, and Other Poems (1894). Biographical information: Reilly, Late Victorian Poetry, p. 160. (AC)