Alexander Falconbridge

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Alexander Falconbridge (died 1792) was a British surgeon on four travels in slave ships between 1780 and 1787 before meeting the anti-slavery campaigner, Thomas Clarkson and becoming a member of the Anti-Slavery Society (ASS).

After meeting Thomas Clarkson, he published in 1788 An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa, an influential book in the abolitionist movement.

In 1790 he declared before a House of Commons Committee. In 1791, he was selected by the Anti-Slavery Society to sail to Sierra Leone with his wife Anna Maria, with the intent of reorganising the failed settlement of freed slaves in Freetown. However, Anna Maria did not share his idealistic views about the settlement.

The colony was a failure. Falconbridge was dismissed and died of drink shortly afterwards.