Lawrence William Quinn (born 25 December 1956) is a British Labour Party politician, railway engineer and from 1997 to 2005 he was the member of parliament for Scarborough and Whitby.
[1] Prior to his election to Parliament, he was a civil engineer with British Rail (1979–94) and Railtrack London North-East (1994–7), and a member of North Yorkshire County Council from 1989 to 1993.
He sat for two terms until being ousted by Conservative candidate Robert Goodwill in the United Kingdom general election of 2005.
that votes for the local Liberal Democrat candidate, the Iraq war, and negative feeling towards Tony Blair (who visited Scarborough the day before polling day to consolidate support) resulted in the marginal loss.
Since losing his seat he has returned to engineering, working as Tube Lines New Works Delivery Manager on secondment from Bechtel (2005 until 2007) then as the Rail Projects Delivery Manager for Bechtel based in London.