John Falconer ( fl. 1547) was an English merchant and botanist.

Biography

Falconer appears to have been the first Englishman who possessed a series of dried plants, a method of study first practised by Luca Ghini of Bologna, the originator of botanical gardens. Falconer travelled, and from 1540 or 1541 lived at

Ferrara Ferrara (, ; egl, Fràra ) is a city and ''comune'' in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital of the Province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream ...

, which he left in 1547. He was a fellow-pupil of William Turner, the father of English botany, at Bologna, and is mentioned in Turner's ''Herbal'' several times. "Maister Falkonner's Boke" is an early mention of a

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