Ekins was the son of Dr. Jeffery Ekins, dean of Carlisle, and nephew of Dr. John Ekins, dean of Salisbury (1768–1809), and was born presumably at Quainton, Buckinghamshire, where his father was then rector.
In 1972, it was condemned and was then bought for preservation and moved to the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton.
He died in Quainton on 5 April 1637, aged 70, and is buried in the chancel of Quainton Church, which he served for 43 years.
President George H. W. Bush named Quainton United States Ambassador to Peru; Ambassador Quainton presented his credentials on December 11, 1989 and served as Ambassador to Peru until September 16, 1992.
The Silverstone Circuit sits on the northern boundary of the district with South Northamptonshire, and the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre is located near Quainton.
In 1885 the Duke of Buckingham opened a modern brickworks near Brill station, with a dedicated siding, and in 1895 his heir William Temple-Gore-Langton, 4th Earl Temple of Stowe, expanded the brickworks, which became the Brill Brick & Tile Works, using the Brill Tramway to deliver bricks to the mainline at Quainton Road.
A former London Transport building from Wembley Park was dismantled and re-erected at Quainton Road to serve as a maintenance shed.
A single track of the former Great Central alignment through Quainton Road to Calvert remains open as far as the disused Varsity Line for occasional freight and DMU maintenance workings.