QUENTIN WRIGHT

From the Old French form of the Latin name Quintinus, a derivative of the given name Quintus. The name was borne by a 3rd-century saint who worked as a missionary in Gaul.

English, Scottish, and northern Irish: occupational name for a maker of machinery, mostly in wood, of any of a wide range of kinds, from Old English wyrhta, wryhta ‘craftsman’ (a derivative of wyrcan ‘to work or make’). The term is found in various combinations (for example, Cartwright and Wainwright), but when used in isolation it generally referred to a builder of windmills or watermills.