Abstract
ON November 8, 1943, Sir Robert Falconer was buried from the Convocation Hall of the University of Toronto, over the destinies of which he had presided for twenty-five years. An attack of coronary thrombosis in 1930 impaired his health and compelled him to retire in 1932. His father, a Canadian of Scottish ancestry, was a Presbyterian missionary for some years in Trinidad. Here his son obtained his early education; and from the West Indies won a Gilchrist Scholarship which enabled him to attend the University of Edinburgh. In those days Butcher and Sellar lectured in classics; A. S. Pringle-Pattison in philosophy; David Masson in English literature; and Chrystal and P. G. Tait in mathematics and natural philosophy. Young Falconer graduated with honours in classics and philosophy, and proceeded to the study of theology in Edinburgh, Leipzig, Berlin (under Harnack) and Marburg. He returned to Canada to become at first professor of New Testament Greek, and then principal, of Pine Hill Theological College, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Here he remained until 1907.
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