Arthur Quiller-Couch were published as the book "On the Art of Writing". His rooms were on staircase C, First Court, and known as the 'Q-bicle'. He supervised the beginnings of the English Faculty there — an academic diplomat in a fractious community. He is sometimes regarded as the epitome of the school of English literary criticism later modified by his pupil F. R. Leavis. Alistair Cooke was a notable student of Quiller-Couch and Nick Clarke's semi-official biography of Cooke features Quiller-Couch prominently, noting that he was regarded by the Cambridge establishment as "rather eccentric" even by the university's standards. Quiller-Couch was a
Arthur Quiller-Couch contributor to the "Speaker", he settled in 1891 at Fowey in Cornwall. In Cornwall he was an active political worker for the Liberal Party. He was knighted in 1910, and in 1928 was made a Bard of the Cornish cultural society Gorseth Kernow, adopting the Bardic name "Marghak Cough" ('Red Knight'). He was Commodore of the Royal Fowey Yacht Club from 1911 until his death. Quiller-Couch died at home in May 1944, after being slightly injured by a jeep near his home in Cornwall in the preceding March. He is buried in Fowey's parish church of St. Fimbarrus. Duke of