Personal
Quirk has been an open Labour supporter all his life. He was president of the British Academy from 1985 to 1989 and became a life peer as Baron Quirk, of Bloomsbury in the London Borough of Camden in 1994.
He currently resides in Germany and England, with his wife, German linguist Gabriele Stein.
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