Background
Quinn, David Beers was born on April 24, 1909 in Dublin, Ireland. Son of David and Albertina (Devine) Quinn.
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This book brings together a collection of the work of David Quinn, the preeminent authority on the early history of the discovery and colonization of America.
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Quinn, David Beers was born on April 24, 1909 in Dublin, Ireland. Son of David and Albertina (Devine) Quinn.
Bachelor, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1931. Master of Arts, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1957. Doctor Lit, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1958.
Doctor of Philosophy, University London, 1934. Doctor Litt, Memorial University, Newfoundland, 1964. Doctor Litt, New University, Ulster, 1975.
Doctor Litt, National University of Ireland, 1981. Doctor of Humane Letters, St. Marys College, 1964. Doctor of Medicine, St. Marys College, 1964.
Doctor of Laws, University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1980. Doctor of Humane Letters, William and Mary College, 1995.
Many of his publications appeared as volumes of the Hakluyt Society. He played a major role in assisting the presentation of the historical aspects during the quadricentennial celebrations (1984–1987) of the first establishment a colony at Roanoke Island. Quinn was born in Dublin, Ireland and was the single pupil at his first school.
He graduated from Queen"s University, Belfast in 1931.
He then completed a Doctor of Philosophy on the early Tudor administration in Ireland at King"s College London. He subsequently spent five years as lecturer at University College, Southampton (now Southampton University).
Returning Belfast in 1939 he taught Irish history. He became interested in the voyages of discovery made by Humphrey Gilbert.
At that time historians relied uncritically on the works of Richard Hakluyt published around 1600.
Quinn"s work and the new sources he discovered resulted in his first volume for the Hakluyt Society, and marked the beginning of his seminal work on voyages of exploration, which he developed from 1944 at University College, Swansea. In 1957 he moved to Liverpool University. At the instigation of America"s Four Hundredth Anniversary Committee his Secretariat Fair for Roanoke: Voyages and Colonies, 1584–1590 was published by University of North Carolina Press in 1985.
He died in Liverpool, England on 19 March 2002.
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Member British Academy, American History Association, Royal History Society, Hakluyt Society, Royal Irish Academy, Irish History Society, Society for the History of Discoveries, Past and Present Society, Friends of Liverpool Maritime Museum, Friends of John Carter Brorn Library. (medallist 1995), Caroliniana Society, Friends of the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Friends fo the University Liverpool, Ulster Society of Irish History Studies (honorary secretary 1939-1944).
Married Alison Moffat October 30, 1937 (deceased 1993). Children: Nicholas Ramakrishna, Roderick E. N., Brigid liberal studies.A. (Quinn) Wainwright.