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1909, Apr. 24 Born, Dublin, Ireland 1931 B.A., Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland 1934 Ph.D., University of London, London, England 1934 1939 Lecturer, University College, Southampton, England 1937 Married Alison Moffat Robertson 1939 1944 Senior lecturer, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland Secretary, Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies 1940 Published The Voyages and Colonising Enterprises of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, 2 vols. London: Hakluyt Society 1941 Elected to Royal Irish Academy 1941 1943 Edited Labour Progress 1943 Assistant editor, Czechoslovakian Section, European Division, British Broadcasting Corp. 1944 1957 Professor, University College, Swansea, Wales 1947 Published Raleigh and the British Empire. London: English Universities Press 1948 Received Leverhulme Research Fellowship to pursue research in America on sixteenth-century English exploration 1955 Published The Roanoke Voyages, 1584-1590: Documents to Illustrate the English Voyages to North America under the Patent Granted to Walter Raleigh in 1584. 2 vols. London: Hakluyt Society 1957 1976 Andrew Geddes and John Rankin Professor of Modern History, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England 1960 1982 Vice president, Hakluyt Society 1964 Published with Paul H. Hulton The American Drawings of John White. 2 vols. London: British Museum and University of North Carolina Press 1964 1968 Vice president, Royal Historical Society 1969 1970 Harrison Visiting Professor, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va. 1969 Named to Editorial Committee of the New History of Ireland series published under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy 1971 Published with W. P. Cumming and R. A. Skelton The Discovery of North America. London: Elek Published North American Discovery, Circa 1000-1612. New York: Harper & Row 1972 Published with Neil M. Cheshire The New Found Land of Stephen Parmenius. Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1974 Published England and the Discovery of America, 1481-1620. London: Knopf Edited The Hakluyt Handbook. 2 vols. London: Hakluyt Society 1975 Delivered Prothero Lecture entitled “Renaissance Influences in English Colonisation,” Royal Historical Society, London, England 1976 1978 Senior Visiting Professor, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, Md. 1977 Published North America from Earliest Discovery to First Settlements: The Norse Voyages to 1612. New York: Harper & Row 1979 Published with Alison M. Quinn and Susan Hillier New American World: A Documentary History of North America from Earliest Times to 1612. 5 vols. New York: Arno Press 1980 1982 Senior Visiting Professor, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, Md. 1982 Elected president, Hakluyt Society 1984 Elected honorary fellow, British Academy 1986 1987 Lecture tour of the United States as Fulbright Fortieth Anniversary Distinguished Fellow 2002, Mar. 19 Died, Liverpool, England From the guide to the David B. Quinn Papers, 1109-1994, (bulk 1935-1987), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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