William Herbert St Quintin

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William Herbert St Quintin (c. 1851–1933) was a British naturalist and bird expert. He studied at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. He served as a Justice of the Peace from 1875 until his death, was High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1899, and Deputy Lieutenant of the East Riding.

St Quintin kept a private collection of birds, including Great bustards, a secretary bird, and a tūī. He helped found the Avicultural Society in 1895, was president of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union in 1909, and was a long-time member of the British Ornithologists' Union (1883–1922). He also served on the council of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (1908–1919).

From 1914 until his death he was president of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society and its Honorary Curator of Zoology. In 1885 he married Violet Helen Duncombe; they had one daughter, Margery Violet St Quintin. He died on 21 January 1933.