William Herbert St Quintin

St Quintin was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. He was a Justice of the peace from 1875 until his death, and served as the High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1899 and Deputy Lieutenant of the East Riding.^[1]

St Quintin was a keen ornithologist, keeping a private collection of birds including Great bustards, a secretary bird, and a tūī. He was a founding member of the Avicultural Society in 1895, president of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union in 1909, a member of the British Ornithologists' Union from 1883 to 1922 and also served on the council of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds from 1908–1919.^[1] St Qunitin was the President of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society from 1914 until his death in 1933, and also served as the Honorary Curator of Zoology.^[2]

In 1885 he married Violet Helen Duncombe and they had one daughter, Margery Violet St Quintin.^[1]