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Quick, ROBERT HEBERT, was born in 1832, had his education at private schools and at Harrow, whence he passed to Trinity College, Cambridge. He took orders, held curacies in Whitechapel and Marylebone, and was appointed by his college to the vicarage of Sedbergh in 1883, but four years later resigned the living. He had an intense love of children, and the great interest of his life was education. To the discussion of its theories he brought wide study, independent thought, and ripe wisdom; witness his bright and delightful Essays on Educational Reformers (1868; 2d ed. 1890). His practical knowledge of the work of teaching he had gained by service at Cranleigh, Harrow, and elsewhere. He died at Cambridge, 9th March 1891. See his Life by Storr (1899).