About Anthony Quinton
Anthony Meredith Quinton, Baron Quinton, FBA was an English political and moral philosopher, metaphysician, and materialist philosopher of mind. He served as President of Trinity College, Oxford from 1978 to 1987; and as chairman of the board of the British Library from 1985 to 1990. He is also remembered as a presenter of the BBC Radio programme Round Britain Quiz. On 7 February 1983, he was created a life peer as Baron Quinton, of Holywell in the City of Oxford and County of Oxfordshire. With the situation for civilians having worsened over the first year of World War II, Quinton's Canadian mother became persuaded by her mother's forceful urgings to return home, with her son, until the end of the war. To BBC Radio audiences, Quinton became well known as the presenter of the long-running Round Britain Quiz from 1974 to 1985.
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