Quinn, David B.

Biographical Note

• 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)