William Herbert St Quintin
William Herbert St Quintin (1851-1933) was a British naturalist. 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. 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. 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. Personal life. In 1885 he married Violet Helen Duncombe and they had one daughter, Margery Violet St Quintin.