title: Jim Quinn (Australian footballer)
text: # Jim Quinn (Australian footballer)
  
  James Frederick Quinn BEM (18 November 1904 – 3 January 1986) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
  
  ## Family
  
  The son of John Quinn (1870–1941) and Janet Quinn, nee McFarlane (1871–1956), James Frederick Quinn was born in West Melbourne on 18 November 1904.
  
  ## Football
  
  Quinn was a useful follower and forward who became a regular senior player and kicked 59 goals in his time with Essendon, who were disappointed to lose him when he moved to Sydney for work-related reasons.
  
  ## Naval cartography
  
  Quinn worked as a naval cartographer and for his work in chart correction for the Royal Australian Navy he was awarded the British Empire Medal in 1960.
  
  