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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.

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.

PYWELL, PETER; b.; adm.; QS in 1596; contributed to collection of verses writtren by the QSS on death of Lady Elizabeth Cecil in 1597, and to collection of congratulatory verses to Queen Elizabeth I written by them in same year (British Library, Royal MSS); Pembroke Coll. Cambridge, pensioner, matr. Mich. 1598.

PYKE, JOHN; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1664, adm. pens. 1664, scholar 1665; BA 1667/8; MA 1671; ordained priest (Lincoln) 17 May 1668; Vicar of Weston, Herts., from 20 May 1668; Chaplain, Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1671-81; d. 1735. [but note will Rev. John Pyke, Weston, Staffs. (sic), proved PCC 4 Dec 1731 (sic)]

PUREFYE, ---; b.; adm.; QS 1569-70 (Chapter Muniments).

PUREFOY, TOBIAS, son of Ralph Purefoy, Leicestershire; b.; adm.; KS (aged 15) 1661; did not secure election to either university 1664, but elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1665, adm. pens. 29 Jun 1665, scholar 1666, matr. 1667/8; BA 1668/9; MA 1672; ordained priest (Ely) 2 Jun 1672; Chaplain, Trinity Coll. 1671-2.

PUNT, NICHOLAS; b. ; adm. ; KS 1544 (Chapter Muniments).

PULTENEY, JOHN, elder son of Rev. Richard Fawcett DD, Vicar of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and Prebendary of Durham, and Elizabeth Brown; bapt. Grendon, Warwicks. 9 Nov 1766 (IGI); adm. 27 Apr 1778; KS (aged 12) 1779; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1783, matr. 26 Jun 1783, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1783 – void 15 Feb 1787; damages of £7, 000 were awarded against him in May 1802 in suit for crim. con. brought by George Markham (adm. 1769, qv); assumed surname of Pulteney in lieu of Fawcett by royal licence 9 Aug 1813, “from grateful and affectionate regard to the memory of Henrietta Laura Pulteney, Countess of Bath”; m. 8 Aug 1803 Elizabeth Evelyn, divorced wife of George Markham (adm. 1769, qv), and sister of John Sutton (adm. 1779, qv); d. 24 Jun 1849.