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 | | Windham Quin (his Christian name is a contraction of his mother's surname, 'Widenham', and is quite distinct from, the 'Wyndham' which was later double-barrelled with Quin) was the first of the family to become a member of parliament and he was also a great patron of the Turf. |
 | | He particularly admired the Pompeo Batonis of Lord Dartrey and 'Mr Quin Junior', the latter of whom was Valentine Richard Quin, later 1st Earl of Dunraven (1752-1824), who was on the Grand Tour in the 1770s and recorded as being in Florence in 1773. |
 | | However, the surviving papers of Thady, Valentine and Windham Quin of Adare, 1678-1769, and of Valentine Richard Quin, later 1st Earl of Dunraven, 1770-1824, are all really estate papers, consisting of bonds, case papers, schedules of deeds, accounts, receipts, tenants' proposals (particularly for the period 1804-1814). |
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