Background
QUINTON, Baron Life Peer of Holywell in the City of Oxford and County of Oxfordshire was born on March 25, 1925 in Gillingham, Kent. Son of the late Richard Frith Quinton and Gwenllyan Letitia Quinton.
QUINTON, Baron Life Peer of Holywell in the City of Oxford and County of Oxfordshire was born on March 25, 1925 in Gillingham, Kent. Son of the late Richard Frith Quinton and Gwenllyan Letitia Quinton.
Stowe School, Christ Church, Oxford.
Served in Royal Air Force, Flying Officer and Navigator 1943-1946. Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford 1949-1955, New College, Oxford 1955-1978. President Trinity College, Oxford 1978-1987.
Delegate, Oxford University Press 1970-1976.
Lecturer, British Academy 1971. Gregynog Lecturer, University of Wales Aberystwyth 1973.
T. South. Eliot Lecturer, University of Kent, Canterbury 1976. Robbins Lecturer, University of Stirling 1988.
Royal Marines Jones Lecturer, Queen"s University, Belfast 1988.
Tanner Lecturer, University of Warsaw 1988. President, Aristotelian Society 1975-1976, Society for Applied Philosophy. Governor, Stowe School 1963-1984, Chair, of Governors 1969-1975.
Fellow.
Winchester College 1970-1985. Emeritus Fellow, New College, Oxford 1980. Chairman British Library 1985-1990.
Arts Council 1979-1981. Board of Eds. Encyclopaedia Britannica since 1985. Peacock Ctted.
Married Marcelle Wegier in 1952.