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 by McArdell, showing him as Falstaff, is in the National Gallery, Dublin.

An actor named Simeon Quin is mentioned under the date 1767 in Jackson's ‘Scottish Stage.’

[Genest's Account of the English Stage; Walpole's Letters, ed. Cunningham; Doran's Annals of the Stage, ed. Lowe; Chetwood's General History of the Stage; Hitchcock's Irish Stage; Boswell's Johnson, ed. Hill; Cibber's Apology, ed. Lowe; Victor's History of the Theatre; Life of Garrick, 1894; Garrick Correspondence; Davies's Life of Garrick and Dramatic Miscellanies; Biographia Dramatica (under Kemble); Thespian Dictionary; Gilliland's Dramatic Mirror; Georgian Era; Gent. Mag. 1800 ii. 1132, 1802 ii. 1199, 1819 i. 301; Russell's Representative Actors; Wilkinson's Memoirs; An Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy, &c. A lying biography of Quin, dedicated to Garrick, was published in 1766, and some of the scandalous details have been copied into the Georgian Era and other collections of memoirs.] 

QUIN, MICHAEL JOSEPH (1796–1843), traveller and political writer, born in 1796, was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn. He devoted himself to literary pursuits and was an extensive contributor to periodical publications, at the same time travelling much on the continent. Many of his able articles on foreign policy appeared in the ‘Morning Chronicle,’ and he was also for some time a contributor to the ‘Morning Herald.’ He edited the ‘Monthly Review’ for seven years (1825–32), and was the first editor of the ‘Dublin Review,’ which was started in 1836. He died at Boulogne-sur-Mer on 19 Feb. 1843.

His works are: 1. ‘A Visit to Spain, detailing the transactions which occurred during a residence in that country in the latter part of 1822 and the first four months of 1823,’ London, 1823, 8vo. 2. ‘The Trade of Banking in England. … Together with a summary of the law applicable to the Bank of England, to Private Banks of Issue, and Joint-Stock Banking Companies,’ London, 1833, 12mo. 3. ‘An Examination of the Grounds upon which the Ecclesiastical and Real Property Commissioners and a Committee of the House of Commons have proposed the abolition of the Local Courts of Testamentary Jurisdiction,’ 2nd edit. London, 1834, 8vo. 4. ‘A Steam Voyage down the Danube. With Sketches of Hungary, Wallachia, Servia, and Turkey,’ 2 vols. London, 1835, 12mo; 3rd edit. with additions, Paris, 1836, 12mo. 5. ‘Nourmahal: an Oriental romance,’ 3 vols. London, 1838, 12mo. 6. ‘Steam Voyages on the Seine, the Moselle, and the Rhine; with railroad visits to the principal cities of Belgium,’ 2 vols. London, 1843, 8vo. He published translations of ‘Memoirs of Ferdinand VII of Spain, London, 1824, 8vo, from the Spanish; of ‘A Statement of some of the principal events in the public life of Agustin de Iturbide, written by himself. With a preface by the translator,’ London, 1824, 8vo, of Laborde's ‘Petra,’ London, 1839, 8vo.

[Gent. Mag. 1843, i. 438; Lowndes's Bibl. Man. (Bohn), p. 2025.] 

QUIN, WALTER (1575?–1634?), poet and preceptor of Charles I, born about 1575 in Dublin, travelled abroad and became a cultivated writer in English, French, Italian, and Latin. He was apparently studying at Edinburgh university, when, in 1595, he was presented to James VI, who was charmed with his manner. He further recommended himself to the king's favour by giving him some poetic anagrams of his own composition on James's name in Latin, Italian, English, and French, together with a poetical composition in French entitled ‘Discours sur le mesme anagramme en forme de dialogue entre vn Zelateur du bien public, et une Dame laquelle represente le royaume d'Angleterre’ (Cal. State Papers, Scotland, 1509–1603, ii. 700). The good impression which Quin made was confirmed by his presenting the king, on New Year's day 1596, with an oration about his title to the English throne (ib. pp. 703–4). The Edinburgh printer, Waldegrave, refused, however, to print a book on the subject which Quin prepared in February 1598. He was at the time reported to be ‘answering Spenser's book [i.e. the fourth book of Edmund Spenser's ‘Faerie Queene,’ where the king's mother, Mary Queen of Scots, was denounced under the name of Duessa], whereat the king is offended’ (ib. p. 747).

Meanwhile Quin had been taken into the service of James VI as tutor to his sons, and he gave abundant proof of his loyalty by publishing, in 1600, ‘Sertum Poeticum in honorem Jacobi Sexti serenissimi ac potentissimi Scotorum Regis. A Gualtero Quinno Dubliniensi contextum,’ Edinburgh (by Robert Waldegrave), 1600, 4to (Edinb. Univ. Libr.). A copy was sent to Sir Robert Cecil by one of his agents in December 1600 (ib. p. 791). The volume consists of some of Quin's early anagrams on the king's names, of Latin odes and epigrams, and English sonnets, addressed either to members of the royal family or to frequenters of the court who interested themselves in literature. An extravagantly eulogistic sonnet on Sir William Alexander (afterwards Earl of Stirling) reappeared in the first edition of the latter's