He was a cousin of Jones Quain (1796–1865), the author of Quain's Elements of Anatomy and of Richard Quain, who was president of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1868, and left to University College, London, funds with which the Quain Professorships of botany, English language and literature, law, and physics were endowed.
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