Patrick Edward Quinn (1862 – 2 April 1926) was an Australian politician.
Born in Darlinghurst to postal officer Edward Quinn and Catherine McCarty (d. August 1900),[1] he attended Marist Brothers School and Fort Street Public School in Sydney.[2] He had two sisters, Nora and Frances, and brother Roderic Joseph.[3]
Quinn began studying law but instead chose journalism as a career and edited a newspaper at Narrabri for twenty years. Later he was involved with the Illustrated Sydney News and The Daily Telegraph.[4] Similar to his poet brother Roderic, Quinn also held an interest in versifying.[4]
He contributed lyrics to the cantata Captain Cook, written by John A. Delany.[5]
He married Julia Bourke in 1888, with whom he had one daughter. In 1898 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Protectionist member for Sydney-Bligh,[6] serving until 1904; he was subsequently Deputy Trade Commissioner for New South Wales in the United States from 1912 to 1917.
Quinn died at Manly in 1926 following several weeks illness, leaving a widow and daughter Marjorie.[4][7] He is buried at the Manly cemetery.[8]
