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Robert Falconer has been taking photographs of preserved steam in Derbyshire for over 25 years, visiting the many heritage lines in the area including Peak Rail, the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway and Midland Railway - Butterley. This volume includes portraits of a number of famous locomotives in action including a replica of Stephenson's Rocket, the Flying Scotsman and the recently built A1 Pacific, Tornado.
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He was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, the eldest child of a Presbyterian minister and his wife. He attended high school in Portuguese of Spain Trinidad while his father was posted there and won a scholarship to the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
University of Edinburgh.
Falconer was ordained in 1892 but never held a clerical position. He also began to publish articles in learned journals. 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 an advocate of broad cooperation between the English speaking nations in international affairs, but was concerned to avoid American dominance of these relationships.
Illinois 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, producing Pastoral Epistles, his most notable work of religious scholarship in 1937. Sir Robert Falconer: a biography by James G Greenlee was published in 1988.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1916).
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Falconer wrote several books on current affairs, including The German Tragedy and its Meaning for Canada (1915), Idealism in National Character (1920) and The United States as a Neighbour (1926).
He was a long time member of The Champlain Society"s Council, serving as its Vice-President (1909-1935) and President (1936-1942).
