John keith falconer biography

Biography: John Keith Falconer was born 15 June , the son of John Arthur Keith Falconer Esq., of Calmsden Manor, Cirencester..

Ion Grant Neville Keith-Falconer [] was Professor of Semitic Languages at Cambridge University.

Ion Grant Neville Keith-Falconer (5 July – 11 May ) was a Scottish missionary and Arabic scholar, the third son of the 8th Earl of Kintore.

Biography: John Keith Falconer was born 15 June , the son of John Arthur Keith Falconer Esq., of Calmsden Manor, Cirencester.

John Keith Craskell Falconer was born on 24 December , in Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica as the son of Thomas Keith Falconer and Unknown Partner.

Born into a noble family with brilliant academic talents, and being wealthy, a lover of sports, and a champion cyclist, he gave up a promising career in England.

Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Keith-Falconer, Ion Grant Neville

KEITH-FALCONER, ION GRANT NEVILLE (1856–1887), Arabic scholar, third son of Francis Alexander Keith-Falconer, ninth earl of Kintore, was born at Edinburgh on 5 July 1856.

His family were the representatives of the Keiths, earls Marischal of Scotland [see under Keith, John, first Earl of Kintore]. Ion was educated first at home, and afterwards at Cheam, under the Rev. R. S. Tabor, whence he passed to Harrow at the age of thirteen, obtaining an entrance scholarship.

He left Harrow in 1873 to read mathematics with the Rev. L. Hensley, vicar of Hitchin, and in the October term of 1874 he commenced residence at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Keith-Falconer, Ion () This article is provided with permission from International Bulletin of Missionary Research Legacy of Ion Keith-Falconer.

After his first year he gave up mathematics, and entered for theological honours, graduating B.A. as first class man and Hebrew prizeman in January 1878. From his schooldays he had taken an interest in evangelistic efforts. At Barnwell, a poor suburb of Cambridge,