{{short description|Australian cricketer and doctor}} {{For|the Australian rules footballer|Bernie Quinlan}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2012}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Bernard Quinlan | image = | country = Australia | fullname = Bernard Gerald Quinlan | birth_date = August 1885 | birth_place = Perth, Western Australia | death_date = 11 September {{death year and age|1951|1885}} | death_place = Heidelberg, Victoria | nickname = | heightft = | heightinch = | heightm = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm medium | role = Batsman | family = Timothy Quinlan (father)<br />Patrick Quinlan (brother)
| club1 = Ireland | year1 = 1911
| type1 = First-class | onetype1 = true | debutdate1 = 20 July | debutyear1 = 1911 | debutfor1 = Ireland | debutagainst1 = Scotland
| columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 1 | runs1 = – | bat avg1 = – | 100s/50s1 = – | top score1 = – | deliveries1 = 84 | wickets1 = 3 | bowl avg1 = 16.33 | fivefor1 = 0 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 2/36 | catches/stumpings1 = 0/–
| date = 28 June | year = 2012 | source = https://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/26/26880/26880.html CricketArchive }} '''Bernard Gerald Quinlan''' (August 1885 – 11 September 1951) was an Australian cricketer and doctor. The son of Timothy Quinlan and grandson of Daniel Connor, both Irish-born politicians, Quinlan was born in Perth, Western Australia, and educated at the University of Adelaide, later progressing to Trinity College Dublin, where he studied medicine. While in Ireland, Quinlan played for the university's cricket team against touring English county teams, and later represented the Irish cricket team in the traditional match against Scotland, in what was to be his only first-class match.<ref>[https://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/26/26880/Miscellaneous_Matches.html Miscellaneous matches played by Bernard Quinlan] – Cricket Archive. Retrieved 11 April 2024.</ref> With Ireland declaring their first innings with the loss of six wickets, Quinlan did not bat, but took a total of three wickets while bowling.<ref>[http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/8/8513.html Scotland v Ireland in 1911] – Cricket Archive. Retrieved 28 June 2012.</ref> After his graduation in 1913, Quinlan returned to Western Australia, where he practised medicine.<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article26875581 PERSONAL.] – ''The West Australian''. Published Wednesday, 28 May 1913. Retrieved from Trove, 28 June 2012.</ref> During Australia's involvement in World War I, he was made an honorary captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps, later being made a captain in the Australian Army Reserve.<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57986340 FEDERAL GAZETTE NOTICES.] – ''The Sunday Times''. Published Sunday, 10 June 1917. Retrieved from Trove, 28 June 2012.</ref> Quinlan later moved to Malvern, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne. He died at the Repatriation General Hospital in Heidelberg in September 1951, and was buried in the Roman Catholic section of the Springvale Cemetery.<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23079340 FAMILY NOTICES] – ''The Argus''. Published 12 September 1951. Retrieved 28 August 2012.</ref> His younger brother, Patrick Francis Quinlan, also played cricket for Ireland, having studied alongside him at Dublin University.<ref name="ire">[http://www.cricketeurope4.net/CSTATZ/irelandall/bio/q/quinlan_pf.html PF Quinlan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304050455/http://www.cricketeurope4.net/CSTATZ/irelandall/bio/q/quinlan_pf.html |date=4 March 2016 }} – cricketeurope4.net. Retrieved 26 October 2011.</ref>
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