[3] He studied under Herbert Fryer and Constant Lambert at the Royal College of Music where he won the Stier Prize for conducting in 1939, and the Hopkinson Gold Medal in 1946.
He spent the Second World War in South Africa as an organiser/director of the Union Defence Force Entertainment Unit.
[2] Seen as "largely responsible for putting Bloemfontein on the musical map," he established both an orchestra and a string quartet in the city.
[1] He retired from PACT in 1983, after which he spent two years at Calgary Opera and a season with the Bochumer Symphoniker.
[3] Quayle met his Durban-born wife Joan in the Entertainment Unit during the Second World War.