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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.

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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.