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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.