QUIN, Michael. b. 1791; entered navy 2 Nov. 1804; commanded the boats of the Weasel in capturing St. Cataldo, Italy 21 Dec. 1812; with the boats of the Naiad destroyed a 16 gun brig near Bona 23 May 1824; captain 10 Jany. 1837; pensioned 27 March 1864; admiral on h.p. 8 April 1868. d. Albion road, Holloway. London 5 Dec. 1870. O’Byrne’s Biog. Dict. (1849) p. 944.
QUIN, Thomas St. John. Minister of a chapel at Bordeaux, Easter 1821, British chaplain there 31 Oct. 1827 to April 1860 when he retired on a pension. d. Bordeaux 15 Feb. 1861.
QUINLAN, John. b. Cloyne, co. Cork 19 Oct. 1826; emigrated to U.S. of America 1844; educ. Mount St. Mary’s seminary, Emmettsburg; ordained 1853; assistant pastor St. Patrick’s ch. Cincinnati; president of Mount St. Mary’s coll. and professor of philosophy and theology; R.C. bishop of Mobile, Alabama 1859 to death; consecrated by archbishop Anthony Blanc of New Orleans on 4 Dec. d. New Orleans 9 March 1883. bur. in Mobile cath. 13 March. Appleton’s American Biog. v 153 (1888).
QUINN, James. b. Athy, co. Kildare 1820; educ. in Ireland and at the Jesuit’s college, Rome; ordained priest 1843; appointed the first R.C. bishop of Brisbane, Queensland June 1859, arrived in the colony 1861. d. Brisbane 30 Aug. 1880.
QUINN, Matthew (brother of preceding). b. co. Kildare 29 May 1821; studied at the Propaganda and Irish colleges, Rome 1837–47; ordained priest at St. John’s, Lateran, Rome May 1845; transferred to Ireland where he took great interest in promotion of Irish emigration to Queensland; consecrated first bishop of Bathurst, N.S.W. by cardinal Cullen in Dublin Nov. 1865. d. 16 Jany. 1884.
QUINN, Peter. b. 1814; agent for estates in Armagh, Down, Tyrone, Monaghan, Longford and Tipperary; an authority on land questions; was examined before several land commissions; vice-chairman of Newry board of guardians; M.P. Newry 1859–65. d. Drumbanagher Armagh 5 Oct. 1894.
QUINTIN, Louis Charles (son of Monsieur Quintin, chirurgeon-major in the French royal service). b. Brest, Brittany 24 July 1790; entered French navy 1800; served in the Diomeda in action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806, wounded and captured after 656 out of the crew of 700 had been killed; a prisoner in England 1806–14; returned to France May 1814, imprisoned there, came back to England, formed one of the cortége of Louis xviii through the streets of London; taught French in Hereford, Monmouth and Shropshire; vice-consul of France at Gloucester 1852 to death; chief founder with E. Lawson of the Philosophical institution at Hereford; author of A general table of the regular and irregular French verbs, with an easy table of their terminations, Hereford 1820. d. Gloucester 20 March 1856. bur. Hampstead near Gloucester.
QUINTON, James Wallace (son of a wine merchant in Enniskillen). b. 1834; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1853; served in the Bengal civil service in the North-West Provinces and Oudh 1856–75; judicial comr. in Burma 1875–7; magistrate and collector of the Allahabad district April 1877, and officiating civil and sessions judge April 1878; comr. in the Jhansi and Lucknow divisions; an additional member of governor-general’s council 1883, 1884, 1886, and 1889; comr. of the Agra division 1884, and member of the board of revenue 1885; member of public service commission 1886; C.S.I. 1887; chief comr. of Assam 22 Oct. 1889 to death; sent to Manipur to arrest the commander of the rebels March 1891; murdered by the rebels in the fort at Manipur 22 March 1891; pensions of £300 and £100 a year granted to his widow and mother. Mrs. Grinwood’s My three years in Manipur (1891); Graphic 18 April 1891 p. 428 portrait; London Figaro 18 April 1891 p. 8 portrait.
QUINTON, Mark, the stage name of Mark Keogh. b. 1859; commenced acting 1869; appeared at a morning performance at Adelphi theatre, London 1882; supported Ada Cavendish in leading characters, she produced and appeared with success in his drama In his power, Royal Alexandra theatre, Liverpool 20 Sept. 1884; supported Miss Adelaide Moore as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet at Comedy theatre, London 17 June 1890; appeared at Drury Lane as the rev. Mr. Eden in It is never too late to mend 11 April 1891, and as Compton Kerr in Formosa 26 May 1891; with Henry Hamilton he wrote Handfast, produced at the Prince of Wales’ 13 Dec. 1887, revived Shaftesbury theatre 16 May 1891, and Lord Anerley St. James’s 7 Nov. 1891. d. Hampstead 8 Oct. 1891. bur. R.C. cemetery, Kensal green 13 Oct.
