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David Beers Quinn was an Irish historian who wrote extensively on early voyages of discovery and colonization to America. He assisted with the historical aspects of the 1984-1987 celebrations of the first Roanoke colony. Quinn was born in Dublin and graduated from Queen's University Belfast and King's College London. He taught at universities in Southampton, Belfast, and Swansea, focusing on the voyages of explorer Humphrey Gilbert. At the request of America's Four Hundredth Anniversary Committee, Quinn published his book Set Fair for Roanoke in 1985 on the 1584-1590 voyages and colonies, including Roanoke Island.

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David Beers Quinn: References

David Beers Quinn was an Irish historian who wrote extensively on early voyages of discovery and colonization to America. He assisted with the historical aspects of the 1984-1987 celebrations of the first Roanoke colony. Quinn was born in Dublin and graduated from Queen's University Belfast and King's College London. He taught at universities in Southampton, Belfast, and Swansea, focusing on the voyages of explorer Humphrey Gilbert. At the request of America's Four Hundredth Anniversary Committee, Quinn published his book Set Fair for Roanoke in 1985 on the 1584-1590 voyages and colonies, including Roanoke Island.

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David Beers Quinn

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
Brief Obituary (http://www.sochistdisc.org/news_letter_May_2002/terra-cognita_1.htm)
David Beers Quinn, the Roanoke Voyages, and North Carolina (http://www.hakluyt.com/hak-so
c-tributes-jones.htm)
Biography of the first Fellow of the Society for the History of Discoveries, 2001 (http://www.soch
istdisc.org/fellows/quinn.htm)
Register of the David B. Quinn Papers in the Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/te
xt/quinn.html).
Hakluyt Society Tributes to David Quinn (http://www.hakluyt.com/hak-soc-tributes.htm)

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