| Authorised form of name | Quain; Sir; Richard (1816 - 1898) |
| Dates | 1816 - 1898 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Mallow-on-the-Blackwater, County Cork, Ireland |
| Date of birth | 30 October 1816 |
| Place of death | Harley Street, London |
| Date of death | 13 March 1898 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Hampstead cemetery, London |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Research field | Pathology |
| Activity | Education:
Apprenticed to a surgeon apothecary, Limerick; University College, London. MB (1840), MD (1842)
Career:
Assistant Physician (1848), later Physician (1855), Brompton Hospital for Diseases of the Chest; Censor, Royal College of Physicians; President, General Medical Council; Physician Extraordinary to Queen Victoria (1890); edited 'A Dictionary of medicine' (1895); his practice included Thomas Carlyle and his wife, and Edwin Landseer
Honours:
Bt 1891
Memberships:
MRCP (1846); FRCP (1851)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 08/06/1871 |
| Relationships | Son of John Quain; cousin of Richard Quain (FRS 1844) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1898 vol 63 pp vi-ix signed by J F
References:
Vanity Fair 15 December 1883 - "Lord Beaconsfield's Physician" by 'Spy' |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/59867751 |
| Code | NA6410 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| NLB/2/850 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Percy Faraday Frankland, Fellow of the Royal Society | 23 November 1888 |
| NLB/16/313 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | [14 March 1898] |
| NLB/14/774 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Sir R Quain, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 14 May 1897 |
| NLB/14/740 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Fellow of the Royal Society | 7 May 1897 |
| NLB/14/769 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Sir Richard Quain, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 13 May [1897] |
| NLB/14/771 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Physiology Committee | 13 May 1897 |
| NLB/16/767 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Joseph Fayrer, Fellow of the Royal Society | 2 June 1898 |
| RR/13/256 | Referee's report by John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, on a paper 'On the mechanism by which the first sound of the heart is produced' by Richard Quain | 12 May 1897 |
| IM/003706 | Quain, Sir Richard | 1999 |
| EC/1871/09 | Quain, Sir Richard: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| VF/31 | Portrait of Sir Richard Quain by Sir Leslie Ward | 20 February 1875 |
| MC/9/213 | Letter from Richard Quain, 67 Harley Street, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 9 June 1871 |
| MC/9 | Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1870-June 1873 |