David Beers Quinn - Wikipedia David Beers Quinn From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search David Beers Quinn (24 April 1909 – 19 March 2002) was an Irish historian who wrote extensively on the voyages of discovery and colonisation of America. 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 PhD 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 Set 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. References[edit] Brief Obituary David Beers Quinn, the Roanoke Voyages, and North Carolina Biography of the first Fellow of the Society for the History of Discoveries, 2001 Register of the David B. Quinn Papers in the Library of Congress. Hakluyt Society Tributes to David Quinn Authority control BNF: cb12059274r (data) GND: 118902695 ISNI: 0000 0001 0934 2072 LCCN: n82146637 NTA: 068230060 PLWABN: 9810635353805606 SNAC: w6b43r4b SUDOC: 028840429 VcBA: 495/80071 VIAF: 110127289 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n82146637 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Beers_Quinn&oldid=951978588" Categories: Historians from Northern Ireland Alumni of Queen's University Belfast Alumni of King's College London Academics of the University of Southampton 1909 births 2002 deaths 20th-century Irish historians Male non-fiction writers from Northern Ireland 20th-century British male writers Hidden categories: Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VcBA identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages Add links This page was last edited on 19 April 2020, at 23:22 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers Contact Wikipedia Mobile view Developers Statistics Cookie statement