QUARENDON, VISCOUNT, see LEE, GEORGE HENRY, 3RD EARL OF LICHFIELD.
QUARLES, GABRIEL, elder son of Sir Robert Quarles, Kt MP, Stewards, Romford, Essex, and his third wife Mary, dau. of Henry Parvish, London, and Ruckholts, Leyton, Essex, merchant ; bapt. St Peter le Poer, London 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. ; in school list Feb 1727/8 (third form, as “Gnarme”) ; 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 12 Oct 1740 (Oxford) ; Domestic Chaplain to Thomas, Earl of Malton, 31 Jan 1740/1 – res 12 Feb 1744/5 ; travelling tutor with Charles Wentworth-Watson, 2nd Marquis of Rockingham (qv) (they were in Geneva spring 1746 – late 1747) ; a Commissioner of Taxes 28 Oct 1761 – 2 Feb 1763, of Excise from Jan 1766 ; m. ; d. 10 May 1775.
QUARME, GEORGE, eldest son of Robert Quarme, Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod and Usher of the Green Rod, and his second wife Margaret Bailey, Housekeeper, House of Lords ; nephew of George Quarme (in school list Feb 1727/8, qv) ; bapt. St.Martin’s in the Fields 28 Jan 1764 ; adm. 20 Jan 1777 ; Ensign, unattached 7 Nov 1778 ; 37th Foot 7 Nov 1780 ; Cornet, 1st Horse Guards 21 Nov 1781 ; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 7 Mar 1783 ; d. 15 Mar 1785, aged 21. Buried Lisbon.
QUIN, JAMES, son of Walter Quin, Dublin, tutor to sons of James I, poet and writer, and Anne — ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1636 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1639, matr. 6 Dec 1639, aged 18, Westminster Student ; BA 1642 ; MA 1646 ; removed from Studentship 1 Aug 1648 for non-appearance before Parliamentary Visitors (Burrows, ed., 1881, 168, 178) ; 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 Mar 1650/1 to be “not compos mentis” (Burrows, op.cit., 329) ; d. insane Oct 1659. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. ODNB.