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I assumed Quint was a pirate or a Moby Dick kind of thing. IMO despite our various interpretations, we're all coming up with a similar "constellation": something not normal, shaded, fictional, out there, darkish, off... The C.P. thing to me, just adds to the vaguely Victorian name. Using two initials (or just one) for forenames in addresses is an English thing (viz C.S. Lewis and P.G. Wodehouse), but in the US, it sounds "old-fashioned".Google was no help so I tried Urban Dictionary. There are a couple of entries on there that it could refer to. Most are on the vulgar side so I will not repeat them here but one in particular stood out. A quint is a slang term for a very funny person. Not sure what the C. P. would refer to.
One of the characters in Jaws was named Quint.
The sounds of the syllables in C.P.Quint evoke "literary": they go interestingly together.
IMO C.P. Quint is not a person, but named for effect. That being said, I know people whose names sound like they came out of Dickens, but, yep, their parents named them that way.