12 Facts About Jones Quain

Jones Quain was an Irish anatomist, born at Mallow.

Jones Quain was author of Elements of Anatomy, of which the first edition was published in 1828.

Jones Quain's grandfather was David Quain of Carrigoon, County Cork.

Jones Quain received the name of Jones from his mother's family.

Richard Jones Quain was his full brother, and Sir John Richard Jones Quain his half-brother.

Jones Quain began his education in Adair's school at Fermoy.

Jones Quain then entered Trinity College Dublin, where he was elected a Scholar in 1814, then the highest classical distinction.

Jones Quain came to London in 1825 and joined, as one of its anatomical teachers, the Aldersgate Street school of medicine founded by Frederick Tyrrell.

Jones Quain accepted in 1831 the office of Professor of General Anatomy at University College, then vacant by the resignation of Granville Sharp Pattison; Richard Jones Quain, his brother, acted as senior demonstrator and lecturer on descriptive anatomy, while Erasmus Wilson was his prosector.

Jones Quain resigned his post at University College in 1835, and in the same year he was appointed a member of the senate of the University of London.

Jones Quain lived in retirement during the last twenty years of his life, and chiefly in Paris, devoting himself to literary and scientific pursuits.

Jones Quain was an elegant and accomplished scholar, and he was deeply interested in literature as well as science.