William Herbert St Quintin DL JP FZS
Born	c. 1851
Died	21 January 1933
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford
Occupation	Naturalist

William Herbert St Quintin DL JP FZS (c. 1851-1933) was a British naturalist.^[1][2]

Biography

St Quintin was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. He was a Justice of the peace from 1875 until his death, and served as the High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1899 and Deputy Lieutenant of the East Riding.^[1]

St Quintin was a keen ornithologist, keeping a private collection of birds including Great bustards, a secretary bird, and a tūī. He was a founding member of the Avicultural Society in 1895, president of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union in 1909, a member of the British Ornithologists' Union from 1883 to 1922 and also served on the council of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds from 1908–1919.^[1] St. Qunitin was the President of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society from 1914 until his death in 1933, and also served as the Honorary Curator of Zoology.^[2]

Personal life

In 1885 he married Violet Helen Duncombe and they had one daughter, Margery Violet St Quintin.^[1]

Select publications

• St Quintin, W.H., 1905. "The breeding of Pterocles exustus". Avicultural Magazine (New Series) 3, pp. 64–66.
• St Quintin, W.H., 1907. "Leaf-insects in captivity". The Entomologist 40, pp. 73–75.
• St Quintin, W.H., 1908. "Notes on the life history of the leaf insects". Naturalist, 618, pp. 235–238.
• St Quintin, W.H., 1910. "Ants and Lycaenid Larvae", Entomologists' Record 22, pp. 72–73.

See also

• Scampston Hall, the estate owned by the St Quintin family
• St Quintin baronets

References