QUINTIN

Louis Charles (son of Monsieur Quintin, chirurgeon-major in the French royal service). b. Brest, Britt any 24 July 1790; entered French navy 1800; served in the Diomeda in action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806, wounded and captured after 656 out of the crew of 700 had been killed; a prisoner in England 1806–14; returned to France May 1814, imprisoned there, came back to England, formed one of the cortége of Louis xviii through the streets of London; taught French in Here ford, Mon mouth and Shropshire; vice-consul of France at Gloucester 1852 to death; chief founder with E. Lawson of the Philosophical institution at Here ford; author of A general table of the regular and irregular French verbs, with an easy table of their terminations, Here ford 1820. d. Gloucester 20 March 1856. bur. Hampstead near Gloucester.