A retired History teacher, who spent the entirety of his thirty-nine-year career at the same school, in north Worcestershire, he now lives on the Dudley-Wolverhampton border and his two main passions are local history and The Great War. He finds his focus has often been where the two topics relate geographically in South Staffordshire, The Black Country and Worcestershire. Quintin is also very active within the Black Country Society and the Western Front Association.