Preceded by Riggs Falkiner 3rd Bt |
Baronet Falkiner of Anne Mount 1850-1858 |
Succeeded by Samuel Edmund Falkiner 5th Bt |
Charles was born in 1790. He was the son of Samuel Falkiner and Sarah Leslie.
He never married.
He was commissioned in 1803, in the service of the Royal Navy. He gained the rank of Midshipman in 1804; Lieutenant in 1810; and subsequently Commander and then Captain.
He fought in the War of 1812 in 1813, where he headed the Shannon‘s maindeck boarders at the capture of the American ship Chesapeake in 1813.
He succeeded as the 4th Baronet Falkiner, of Anne Mount, Co Cork (est. 1778 in the Baronetage of Ireland) in 1850."
He passed away in 1858.
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