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Quins 16.7.1800 at Reeves's / 22.7.1800 Quins at Burton's

GD website has coded these to Edward Turnly Quin DNB 1762-1823 which is probably right for later Quins in London, but though he was Irish there were many Quins in Ireland and Quin didn't appear in Godwin's diary with Curran in London until 1817. E T Quin married in London in 1793 and the DNB says nothing more about his whereabouts till 1803 when he became editor of the Traveller

Thomas Goold's mother was nee Quin (see Gould) and Gould was at Reeves's on 16.7.1800. In Dict Irish Biog Henry Quin 1717-1791 doctor, his…

4.9.1808 Royal Ménagerie, Quist w. M(ary) J(ane), Bonnycastle &c

Probably Charles Adolphus Quist, 1729-1821  Lt. Col attached to the Riding House department of the Royal Artillery, Woolwich, died unmarried. Charles Quist son of Count Adolphus Quist of Sweden, naturalised 1775. Was he displaying riding skills at age 79? The main attraction at Pidcock's Royal Menagerie, Exeter Change, Strand was the female kangaroo with her young hopping in and out of her pouch