Richard Quain

Richard Quain

Sir Richard Quain, 1st Baronet (30 October 1816 - 13 March 1898), was an Irish physician. He was born at Mallow-on-the-Blackwater, County Cork, and died in Harley Street, London.

Quain was the eldest child of John Quain of Carrigoon and Mary, daughter of Michael Burke of Mallow. He was sent to the Diocesan School at Cloyne for his early education and then, aged 15, apprenticed to the surgeon-apothecary Fraser in Limerick for five years. In 1837 he went to London and enrolled in medicine at the University College, where his cousins, Jones Quain (1796–1865), the anatomist, and Richard Quain, FRCS, held teaching posts. He graduated M.B. with honours in 1840.