Background
Falconer was the son of Henry Falconer by Martha Pike, his wife, was born at Lytton, Dorsetshire, on 25 March 1577. His mother belonged to a respectable Cheshire family, and his maternal uncle was Sir Richard Morton.
Falconer was the son of Henry Falconer by Martha Pike, his wife, was born at Lytton, Dorsetshire, on 25 March 1577. His mother belonged to a respectable Cheshire family, and his maternal uncle was Sir Richard Morton.
His brother then sent him to Oxford, where he studied for nearly a year in Saint Mary"s Hall, and for another year in Gloucester Hall.
Subsequently he joined the expedition of the Earl of Essex to Spain, and ‘after being tossed about by many storms’ he returned to London, where he spent two years and a half in the service of Lord Henry Windsor. Going to Rome he was admitted into the English College on 19 May 1600, under the assumed name of Dingley. His name occurs in a list of twelve Jesuits banished in 1618.
He was professed of the four vows 22 July 1619.
In 1621 he had returned from exile, and was exercising his spiritual functions in London. After serving as a missioner in the Oxford district, he was appointed socius to the master of novices at Watten in 1633, and subsequently confessor at Liège and Ghent.
At one period he was penitentiary at Saint Peter"s, Rome. He died on 7 July 1656.
Quotations: The Life and Miracles of Saint Wenefride, Virgin, Martyr, and Abbess, Patroness of Wales.’.