‘Tragedie of Darius’ (1603). Some extracts from the rare volume are given in Laing's ‘Fugitive Scottish Poetry’ (1825). In 1604 Quin celebrated the marriage of his friend, Sir William Alexander, in a poem which remains unprinted among the Hawthornden MSS. at Edinburgh University (Archæologia Scotica, vol. iv.).
Quin migrated with the Scottish king to England in 1603 on his accession to the English throne, and was employed in the household of Prince Henry at a salary of 50l. a year (Birch, Life of Prince Henry, p. 51). He lamented the prince's death in 1612 in two sonnets, respectively in English and Italian, in Latin verse, and in some stanzas in French; these elegies were printed in Joshua Sylvester's ‘Lachrymæ Lachrymarum’ (1612), and the two in English and Latin were reissued in ‘Mausoleum’ (Edinburgh, by Andro Hart, 1613). In 1611 he contributed Italian verses ‘in lode del autore’ to Coryat's ‘Odcombian Banquet.’
Quin became, after Prince Henry's death, preceptor to his brother Charles. For Charles's use he compiled ‘Corona Virtutum principe dignarum ex varijs Philosophorum, Historicorum, Oratorum, et Poetarum floribus contexta et concinnata,’ with accounts of the lives and virtues of Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius (London, by John Bell, 1613, 12mo, Bodl.; another edit., 1617, Brit. Mus.); this was reissued at Leyden in 1634, and in Stephen de Melle's ‘Syntagma Philosophicum’ (Paris, 1670, v. 336–481). Eulogistic mention was made of Quin in John Dunbar's ‘Epigrammata’ (1616). A more ambitious literary venture followed in ‘The Memorie of the most worthy and renowned Bernard Stuart, Lord D'Aubigni, renewed. Whereunto are added Wishes presented to the Prince at his Creation. By Walter Quin, servant to his Highnesse,’ London, by George Purslow, 1619, 4to; dedicated to ‘the Prince my most gracious master’ (Bodleian). In the preface, Quin states that he had collected materials in French for a prose life of his hero, Sir Bernard Stuart, but they proved inadequate for his purpose. ‘A Short Collection of the most Notable Places of Histories’ in prose is appended, together with a series of poems, entitled ‘Wishes,’ and addressed to Prince Charles.
On Charles I's marriage in 1625 Quin published a congratulatory poem in four languages, Latin, English, French, and Italian. It bore the title ‘In Nuptiis Principum incomparabilium, Caroli Britannici Imperii Monarchæ … et Henriettæ Mariæ Gratulatio quadrilinguis,’ London, by G. Purslow, 1625 (Brit. Mus.), 4to. Ten Latin lines signed ‘Walt. O—Quin Armig.’ are prefixed to Sir Thomas Herbert's ‘Travels’ in 1634. Quin doubtless died soon afterwards. An undated petition, assigned to 1635, from Quin's son John describes both Quin and his wife as ancient servants of the royal family, and prays that the pension of 100l. a year granted to Quin may be continued during life to the petitioner (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1635–6, p. 2).
Another son, James Quin (1621–1659), born in Middlesex, obtained a scholarship at Westminster, and was elected to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1639. He graduated B.A. in 1642, and M.A. in 1646, and was elected a senior student. As an avowed royalist he was ejected from his studentship by the parliamentary visitors in 1648. Anthony à Wood, who was acquainted with him, often heard him ‘sing with great admiration.’ His voice was a bass, ‘the best in England, and he had great command of it … but he wanted skill, and could scarce sing in consort.’ He contrived to obtain an introduction to Cromwell, who was so delighted with his musical talent that, ‘after liquoring him with sack,’ he restored him to his place at Christ Church. But in 1651 he was reported to be ‘non compos.’ He died in October 1659, in a crazed condition, in his bedmaker's house in Penny Farthing Street, and was buried in the cathedral of Christ Church. He contributed to the Oxford University collections of Latin verse issued on the return of the king from Scotland in 1641, and on the peace with Holland in 1654 (Welsh, Alumni Westmonast. p. 114; Foster, Alumni; Wood, Life and Times, ed. Clark, i. 287; Burrows, Reg. Camden Soc. p. 489).
[Brydges's Restituta, i. 520, iii. 431; Collier's Bibliographical Cat.; Quin's Works.]
QUINCEY, THOMAS de (1785–1859), author. [See De Quincey.]
QUINCY, JOHN, M.D. (d. 1722), medical writer, was apprenticed to an apothecary, and afterwards practised medicine as an apothecary in London. He was a dissenter and a whig, a friend of Dr. Richard Mead [q. v.], and an enemy of Dr. John Woodward [q. v.] He published in 1717 a ‘Lexicon Physico-medicum,’ dedicated to John, duke of Montagu, who had just been admitted a fellow of the College of Physicians of London. It is based on the admirable medical lexicon of Bartholomew Castellus, published at Basle in 1628, and went through eleven editions, of which the last two appeared respectively in 1794 and 1811 (greatly revised). His ‘English Dispensatory’ (1721), of which a fourth
