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RABBET, MICHAEL; b.; adm.; QS in 1568; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1571, adm. scholar 1572, matr. Easter 1572; BA 1575/6; MA 1579 (incorp. Oxford 14 Jul 1584); migrated to Gonville and Caius Coll., Fellow and Tutor Nov 1579 – Lady Day 1587; BD 1586; ordained deacon and priest (Lincoln) 8 Feb 1581/2; Rector of Cricket Malherbie, Somerset 1581; Rector of Streatham, Surrey, from 1585; adm. Gray’s Inn 20 Feb 1596/7; Rector of St. Vedast, Foster Lane, London, 13 Feb 1603/4 – 1617; one of translators of the Bible; m. 1st, ---; m. 2nd, 19 Oct 1619 Margaret Gifford; d. 5 Feb 1630/1, aged 78.

Quixley, Frederick George Peter, b. 23 Dec. 1915; adm. Apr. 1929 (A); left July 1935; Metropoli­tan Police Coll., Sub-Divisional Inspector Metropolitan Police; Roy. Tank Regt 1940-6 (Maj.), served Middle East and Italy; RAOC 1946-51 (Maj.), retd 1959; BP Co. and other mining inter­ests, retd 1975; m. 24 Dec. 1941 Dorothy Irene Betsy, d. of William Atkinson of Dorking, Sur­rey; d. 1990.

QUIN, JAMES, son of Walter Quin, Dublin, poet and preceptor of Charles I; b.; adm.; KS 1636; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1639, matr. 6 Dec 1639, aged 18, Westminster Student; BA 1642; MA 1646; ejected from Studentship by Parliamentary Visitors for non-submission; Wood, who had several times heard him “sing with great admiration”, recorded that Quin had “the best bass voice in England, but wanted skill” (Life and Times, ed. Clark, I, 287); Cromwell was so charmed with his voice that he procured Quin’s restoration to his Studentship; reported in 1651 to be “non compos”; d. insane Oct 1659. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. DNB.

Quin, Henry George, elder son of Richard James Quin, of Bayswater, London, barrister-at­ law, by Mary Charlotte, elder daughter of Surg.-Major Charles Richard Nicoll, Grenadier Guards; b. Dec. 15, 1881; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 27, 1895; left April 1899; R.M.C. Sandhurst 1899; 2nd Lieut. Northumberland Fusiliers Aug. 11, 1900; killed in action at Yzerspruit, near Klerksdorp, South Africa, Feb. 25, 1902.

Quertier, John Reginald, son of Reginald Lawrence Quertier AMICE, ofBeckenham, Kent, and Gweneth Muriel, d. of Henry John Wright, architect, of Ipswich; b. 21 Apr. 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (H); left July 1935; Imp. Coll. Lond., BSc 1938; AFRAeS; tech. asst Rolls-Royce Ltd 1938- 46; chief devel. engineer Rennell & Co., Ipswich, 1946-54; chief engineer Consolidated Pneu­matic Tool Co., London, 1954-82; pres. Brit. Compressed Air Soc. 1954; m. 10 May 1941 Geraldine Helen Gillies, d. of Maj. J. Shields, quarry owner, of Isley Walton, Derbyshire; d. 1 Dec. 2004.