Born: 1926, United Kingdom
Died: 27 October 2016
Country most active: United Kingdom
Also known as: NA
This biography, written by J J O’Connor and E F Robertson, has been republished with permission from the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.
Let us pause our biography of Alison Falconer at this point and say a little about her two sisters. Alison’s younger sister Gillian Laura Falconer studied history at Somerville College, where she became friends with Margaret Roberts, later known as Margaret Thatcher, who became Prime Minister. She returned to the family home in St Andrews and lived there with her mother [10]:-
Passionate about art and design, she was skilled at screen printing, some of her designs taken by Liberty and the National Trust. Miss Falconer never married, after the man she described as the “right one” died in a motorbike accident before they could wed. Gillian Falconer died in 2016 and left over 4 million pounds which she had made through stocks and shares [10]:-
More than £1.4m of her fortune was shared out between family and friends, with the rest divided between several causes, also including Somerville College in Oxford, the Scottish Wildlife Trust, the National Trust, the Carlisle Overseas Aid Trust and the John Muir Trust.