Robert Hebert Quick
Robert Hebert Quick (30 September 1831 – 1891) was an English educator and writer on education.
Life
Born in Harrow, London, Quick was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1854 and was ordained the following year.[1] Afterwards he was assistant to Joseph Merriman at Cranleigh School; and assistant master at Harrow School, appointed by Henry Montagu Butler, an old friend.[2]
Quirk was the first to lecture at Cambridge on the history of education (1879), to the new teachers' training syndicate.[2]
Works
- Essays on Educational Reformers (1868; second enlarged edition, 1890)
Quick also wrote on Friedrich Fröbel, edited John Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1880), and reprinted with notes Richard Mulcaster's Positions (1888).
Legacy
Quick's personal library forms what is now the greater part of the Quick Memorial Library collection at the University of London Research library. Books, pamphlets and periodicals are included, dealing with most aspects of education.
Family
Quick married Bertha, daughter of General Chase Parr. They had a son, Oliver Chase Quick, and a daughter Dora.[2]
Notes
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References
- F. Storr, Life and Memoirs of R. H. Quick (London, 1899)
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- The Quick Memorial Library
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External links
Works written by or about Robert Hebert Quick at Wikisource
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