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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

RADCLIFFE, CHARLES; b.; adm.; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1563, adm. scholar 1567; BA 1567/8; MA 1571; ordained priest (Lincoln) 30 Oct 1572; Chaplain, Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1571-83; d. c. 1583.

RADCLIFFE, JEREMIAH, second son of Ralph Radcliffe, Hitchin, Herts., schoolmaster and playwright, and Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Marshall, Hitchin, Herts.; b.; adm.; QS in 1564; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1566, adm. scholar 1567, matr. Easter 1567; 6th in “ordo” 1570/1; BA 1570/1; MA 1574; BD 1581; DD 1588 (incorp. Oxford 10 Jul 1600); Fellow, Trinity Coll., from 1572, Junior Dean 1582-3, 1584-6, Senior Dean 1586-8, 1596-7, Senior Bursar 1587-9, 1591-2, Vice-Master from 1597; ordained; Vicar of Shudy Camps, Cambs. 1579; Vicar of Trumpington, Cambs., 1580-9; Vicar of Eaton Bray, Beds., 1584-7; Vicar of Heversham, Westmorland 1588-91; Rector of Orwell, Cambs., from 1590; one of the translators of the Apocrypha; buried Orwell, Cambs., 4 Mar 1611/2.

RADCLIFFE, MILES, only son of Jonathan Radcliffe, Northumberland Street, Westminster, merchant, and Sarah --- (IGI); bapt. St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch 10 Mar 1768 (IGI); adm. 26 Jul 1779; KS (aged 15) 1783; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1788, adm. pens. 22 May 1788, scholar 8 May 1789; adm. Middle Temple 31 Mar 1787; drowned while bathing in the river Cam 10 Jun 1791.

RADCLIFFE, SIR EDWARD, brother of Jeremiah Radcliffe (qv); b. ; adm. ; KS 1566-9 (Chapter Muniments 54011-8); left 1569; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, matr. as sizar Easter 1570; BA 1573/4; migrated to Corpus Christi Coll. ; MA 1577; MD Orleans (incorp. Cambridge 1584, Oxford 1600); Physician to James I; knighted 30 Jan 1604/5; of Sevington, Kent, and Orwell, Cambs. ; m. 9 Nov 1587 (IGI) Martha, second dau. of William Wilcock, London; buried Hitchin, Herts. 27 Sep 1631, aged 78.