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Contemporary Notables of the name Quinton (post 1700) +

  • Pieter Quinton (b. 1998), American rower, he competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics
  • Brigadier-General Alfred Bixby Jr. Quinton (1890-1968), American Acting Director of Industrial Programs, Department of Defence in 1950 9
  • Richard Quinton (1801-1885), American politician, Delegate to Iowa State Constitutional Convention from Keokuk County, 1844 10
  • Diane R. Quinton, American Democratic Party politician, Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1988 11
  • Alexander Quinton, American politician, Delegate to Whig National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1839 11
  • Sophie Quinton (b. 1976), French actress
  • James Wallace Quinton (1834-1891), Irish chief commissioner of Assam, son of a wine merchant in Enniskillen, educated at Trinity College, Dublin
  • Marshall J. Quinton (1852-1904), professional baseball catcher
  • Karen Quinton, Canadian pianist, organist, harpsichordist and music educator from Toronto
  • ... (Another 7 notables are available in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.)


  1. Convict Records of Australia. Retrieved 4th February 2021 from https://convictrecords.com.au/ships
  2. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  3. Rubincam, Milton. The Old United Empire Loyalists List. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1976. (Originally published as; United Empire Loyalists. The Centennial of the Settlement of Upper Canada. Rose Publishing Company, 1885.) ISBN 0-8063-0331-X
  4. Seary E.R., Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland, Montreal: McGill's-Queen's Universtity Press 1998 ISBN 0-7735-1782-0
  5. Charbonneau, André, and Doris Drolet-Dubé. A Register of Deceased Persons at Sea and on Grosse Île in 1847. The Minister of Canadian Heritage, 1997. ISBN: 0-660-198/1-1997E (p. 52)
  6. Convict Records Voyages to Australia (Retrieved 9th February 2022). Retrieved from https://convictrecords.com.au/ships/eleanor
  7. Convict Records of Australia. Retrieved 1st February 2021 from https://convictrecords.com.au/ships/charles-kerr
  8. State Records of South Australia. (Retrieved 2010, November 5) The STRATHEDEN 1850. Retrieved http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/BSA/1850Stratheden.htm
  9. Generals of World War II. (Retrieved 2014, March 26) Alfred Quinton. Retrieved from http://generals.dk/general/Quinton/Alfred_Bixby_Jr./USA.html
  10. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 8) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
  11. Halifax Explosion Book of Remembrance | Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. (Retrieved 2014, June 23) . Retrieved from https://maritimemuseum.novascotia.ca/what-see-do/halifax-explosion/halifax-explosion-book-remembrance


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