RACSTER, JOHN, son of John Racster, Norfolk; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1580; QS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1584, adm. scholar 1585; BA 1588/9; MA 1592 (incorp. Oxford 9 Jul 1594); Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 4 Oct 1591, Major Fellow 11 Mar 1591/2 – c. 1597; ordained; Rector of Suckley, Worcs., from 1596; author, A Booke of the Seven Planets or Seven Wandering Motives of Wm. Alabaster’s Wit retrograded or removed, 1598, in answer to The Seven Motives for his Conversion by William Alabaster (qv); in the dedication of his book Racster writes “the same schoole bred us both, the same university nourced us both, the same colledge maintained us both, the same master preferred us both, the same roofe, nay the same bed, sometimes contained us both”; m.; d. 1640.

Racic, Antun, son of Stefan Antun Racic, shipowner, of Cavtat, Yugoslavia, and Pava, d. of Nikola Pasic of Belgrade; b. 8 Oct. 1920; adm. Jan. 1936 (B); left July 1939; Univ. of Belgrade; d. 1994.

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.

Quass, Michael Richard, son of Phineas Quass, of Westminster, barrister, and Eleanor Ruth, daughter of Julius Gray, of Brondesbury Park; b. 20 Jan. 1936; adm. 21 Sept. 1949 (W); left July 1953; d. 11 Oct. 1960.

QUARME, GEORGE, son of Robert Quarme, Padstow, Cornwall, and Elizabeth ---; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 12) 1729; KS 1730; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1735, matr. 9 Jun 1735, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1735 – void 23 Dec 1743; BA 1739; ordained deacon (Oxford) 12 Oct 1740; travelling tutor to Charles Wentworth-Watson, 2nd Marquis of Rockingham (qv) [but not recorded as such by Ingamells]; a Commissioner of Taxes 28 Oct 1761 – 2 Feb 1763, of Excise from 1766; d. 10 May 1775.

QUARLES, GABRIEL, son of Sir Robert Quarles, Kt, Stewards, Romford, Essex, and his third wife Mary, dau. of Henry Parvish, London; bapt. 19 Apr 1618; adm. ; KS 1630 (Bodleian Library, Oxford, Tannner MSS, lxix, f. 137); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 2 Oct 1635, matr. Mich. 1635; of Canwell Hall, Herts. ; buried Romford, Essex 28 Jan 1649/50.