Quintin Craufurd

Quintin Craufurd (22 September 1743 – 23 November 1819) was a British author born at Kilwinning, Scotland.

Returning to Europe before the age of forty with a handsome fortune, he settled in Paris, where he gave himself to the cultivation of literature and art, and formed a good library and collection of paintings, coins and other objects of antiquarian interest.

Craufurd was on intimate terms with the French court, especially with Marie Antoinette, and was, alongside his lover Eleanore Sullivan, one of those who arranged the flight to Varennes.

He lived among the French émigrés until the peace of Amiens made it possible to return to Paris.

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