Career
Quinton made his first-class debut for Oxford University in 1895 against the Marylebone Cricket Club. That same season Quinton made his County Championship debut for Hampshire against Leicestershire. In 1896 Quinton played his final first-class match for Oxford University, coming against the Marylebone Cricket Club, the team he made his debut against the previous year.
Quinton also represented Hampshire in two first-class matches in 1896, against Sussex and Yorkshire.
His final appearance for Hampshire came three years later in 1899 in a County Championship match against Essex. Quinton"s brother, Francis Quinton, also represented Hampshire in first-class cricket.
Quinton played alongside Francis in two matches against Sussex and Yorkshire. Quinton"s death was unusual and tragic.
He was found shot through the top of his head in the lavatory of a first-class carriage of a train from London at Reading station on 22 December 1922.
The coroner returned a verdict of "Suicide during temporary insanity". At the time of his death, Quinton was described as living in Church Crookham, Hampshire and as being employed as a schoolmaster at Stanmore Park School, Stanmore, Middlesex, where his headmaster was an Oxford cricket Blue of an earlier vintage, Vernon Royle.
