QUEKETT, William (brother of preceding). b. Langport 3 Oct. 1802; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1831; C. of South Cadbury, Somerset 1825; C. of St. George’s-in-the-East, London 1830–41; incumbent of Ch. Ch. Watney st. London 1841–54; founded with Sidney Herbert the Female emigration society 1849; R. of Warrington, Lancs. June 1854 to death; his work in London is described by Charles Dickens in an article entitled What a London curate can do if he tries, in Household Words 16 Nov. 1850 pp. 172–6; he is also depicted as Dr. Lyman in Battledon rectory. d. Warrington rectory 30 March 1888. Wm. Quekett’s My sayings and doings (1888) 2 portraits.
QUENTIN, Sir George Augustus (eld. son of George Quentin of Göttingen). b. 1760; served in the Gards du Corps, Hanover 1786–93; cornet in 10 Hussars 25 Feb. 1793; lieut. col. 13 Oct. 1808 to 18 March 1824; aide-de-camp to Prince Regent and George 4 8 Feb. 1811 to 27 May 1825; tried by a court martial at Whitehall 17–31 Oct. 1814 for neglect of duty and allowing relaxed discipline in his regiment and was reprimanded; equerry to the crown stables 1825 to death; L.G. 28 June 1838; C.B. 4 June 1815; knighted at the Pavilion, Brighton 8 Dec. 1821. d. 11 Great Cumberland st. London 7 Dec. 1851. The trial of colonel Quentin (1814); G.M. xxxvii 190 (1852); Royal military calendar, 3 ed. iv 226–31 (1820).
QUICK, Henry. b. Zennor, Cornwall 4 Dec. 1792; related in verse all the local calamities and crimes from 1830 to his death; printed most of his poems as broadsides; author of A new copy of verses, an account of the accident at Pendeen cove 1830; A new copy of verses on the scarcity and famine in Ireland 1847; A new copy of verses on the church erecting at Pendeen 1850; The Brison shipwreck 1851. d. Mill Hill Down, Zennor 9 Oct. 1857. bur. Zennor 12 Oct. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii 541, 1320 (1878–82); G. B. Millett’s Penzance, past and present (1880) 36 portrait; Life and progress of Henry Quick (1836).
QUICK, Robert Hebert (eld. son of James Carthew Quick, merchant). b. London 20 Sept. 1831; educ. Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; worked as an unpaid curate with rev. J. Llewellyn Davies, first at St. Mark’s, Whitechapel 1855, and afterwards in Marylebone; a master in Lancaster gr. sch. 1858, then at Guildford gr. sch., Hurstpierpoint, and Cranley; assistant master at Harrow Jany. 1870 to Dec. 1874; head of a preparatory school Orme square, London, and then at Guildford 1874–81; appointed by univ. of Camb. 1881 to give the first course of lectures on the history of education under the newly formed syndicate for training of teachers; V. of Sedbergh, Yorkshire 1883–7; author of Essays on educational reformers 1868, 2 ed. 1890; Essentials of German 1882; edited J. Locke’s Thoughts concerning education 1880; reprinted R. Mulcaster’s Positions 1888; his article on Frœbel in the 9th ed. of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1879) was published separately; resided Earlswood cottage, Redhill, Surrey. d. at the residence of John Robert Seeley at Cambridge 9 March 1891. Journal of education April 1891 pp. 188, 221–7, 257, 297; Education April 1891 portrait.
QUILLINAN, Edward (son of Edward Quillinan of Ireland, a wine merchant at Oporto). b. Oporto 12 Aug. 1791; educ. Sedgley park school, Staffs. 1800; a clerk to his father at Oporto 1805–7; cornet 2 dragoon guards 14 July 1808, present at Walcheren; lieut. 23 light dragoons 14 July 1810; lieut. 3 dragoon guards 24 June 1813, placed on h.p. 1814; lieut. 3 dragoon guards again 29 June 1815, placed on h.p. 31 May 1821; served in Spain 1812; wrote a satirical poem The ball room votaries 1810; his connection with The whim, a magazine, Canterbury 1810–11 involved him in two duels; author of Dunluce castle, a poem 1814; The sacrifice of Isabel 1816; The conspirators, 3 vols. 1841; translated 5 books of Camoens’s Lusiad, published by John Adamson 1853. d. Loughrigg Holme, Ambleside 8 July 1851. bur. Grassmere churchyard 12 July. E. Quillinan’s Poems, edited by Wm. Johnston (1853); W. Knight’s Life of Wm. Wordsworth, iii 114, 380, 521 (1889); Irish monthly, xv 285–8 (1887).
Note.—He m. 11 May 1841 Dorothy, 2 dau. of William Wordsworth, she was b. Dove cottage, Grassmere 16 Aug. 1804, d. Rydal Mount 9 July 1847, she wrote Journal of a few months’ residence in Portugal and glimpses of the south of Spain 1847, new ed. 1895.
QUILLINAN, Jemima K. (1 dau. of the preceding). b. near Dublin 1819; much beloved by William Wordsworth; a friend of all the Lake circle; attended by 3 of Wordsworth’s descendants and Dr. Arnold’s youngest daughter, she d. Loughrigg Holme 28 Jany. 1891. bur. Grassmere churchyard, her portrait by F. Stone hung in Wordsworth’s drawing room. I.L.N. 21 Feb. 1891 p. 235 portrait.
Note.—Her sister Rotha Quillinan b. Spring cottage, near Ambleside 1822 d. Loughrigg Holme 1876.
QUILTER, William (4 son of Samuel Sacker Quilter of Walton, Suffolk). b. 1808; articled to P. H. Abbott, accountant, 14 Walbrook, London 1825, succeeded to the business with John Ball 1832, senior partner 50 years; the firm soon gained a leading position as accountants, prepared important reports for parliament on the railway accounts in the disasters of 1848–9; joint auditor with Messrs. Coleman and Turquand appointed by board of trade to audit accounts of public companies under Limited liability act Dec. 1856; raised the status of the profession; first president of Institution of accountants 1870; made a collection of water colour drawings, a portion of which he sold in 1875. d. 28 Norfolk st. Park lane, London 12 Nov. 1888. Times 14 Nov. 1888 p. 4, 16 Nov. p. 10.
QUIN, Frederic Hervey Foster. b. London 12 Feb. 1799; educ. Edinb. univ. 1817, M.D. 1 Aug. 1820; began practice at Naples July 1821, where he was a friend of Louisa, wife of Vittorio Alfieri and widow of Charles Edward Stuart, the young pretender; physician to prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg in England 1826–9; practised in Paris chiefly as a homœopath May 1829 to Sept. 1831; practised at 19 King st. St. James’s, London July 1832, and at 13 Stratford place 1833–63; introduced the homœopathic system into England 1832; blackballed at the Athenæum club Feb. 1838; medical attendant to duchess of Cambridge from 26 June 1845; established the St. James’s homœopathic dispensary 1843; founded the British homœopathic society 1844; chief founder of London homœopathic hospital 1850, professor of therapeutics and materia medica in the medical school of the hospital 18 Oct. 1859; translated Hahnemann’s Materia medica pura, vol. i 1839, the complete edition was burnt at the printers before publication; he knew the princess Pauline Bonaparte, Talleyrand, Napoleon iii, and Disraeli; he was almost the last of the wits of London and no dinner was complete without his presence; in his manners and dress an imitator of count Dorsay; author of Du traitement homœopathic du choléra avec notes et appendice, Paris 1832; Pharmacopœia homœopathica 1834; edited The British homœopathic pharmacopœia, 2 ed. 1876. d. the Garden mansions, Queen Anne’s Gate, Westminster 24 Nov. 1878. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 28 Nov. E. Hamilton’s Memoir of F. H. F. Quin (1879) portrait; Madden’s Literary life of the countess of Blessington (1855) i 191, ii 26, 27, 111–4, 448–54, iii 201; Lord Ronald Gower’s My reminiscences ii 251–4 (1883).