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DE’ATH, GEORGE HANBY, brother of Harry Holmes De’Ath (qv); b. 16 Sep 1861; adm. (G) 22 Jan 1874; left Easter 1878; Guy’s Hospital; MRCS 1884, LSA 1885; practised at Buckingham; Coroner for Winslow division of Buckinghamshire; m. 5 Aug 1886 Margaret Fair, youngest dau. of Edward Zimmermann, Castle Hill, Ealing, Middlesex, South American merchant; d. 7 Jul 1901.

DE’ATH, HARRY HOLMES, son of Robert De’Ath MRCS LSA, West Street, Buckingham, medical practitioner, and Anne, dau. of Timothy Richard Holmes, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk; b. 20 Sep 1859; adm. (G) 27 Mar 1873; left Christmas 1875; adm. solicitor Feb 1882; retired from practice because of ill-health and lived at Ramsgate, Kent; d. 10 May 1908.

DEACON, CHARLES PARK, brother of James Henry Deacon (qv); bapt. 1784; at school 1794; in school lists 1795, 1797; will proved PCC 11 Jul 1851, as of 6 Graham Street, Eaton Square, second Christian name given as Parke.

DEACON, HENRY WILLIAM, son of James Henry Deacon (qv) and his first wife; b. 12 Oct 1823; adm. 20 Jan 1840; master of a pack of foxhounds with which he hunted the Tavistock district 1853-9; Master, Hampshire Hunt 1862-84; of Ropley Cottage, Ropley, Hampshire (1881 Census); m. 6 Dec 1860 Caroline Agnes, widow of Maj. Lewis Coker, Bicester House, Oxford, and youngest dau. of Maj. James Pitman, Exeter; d. 18 Oct 1902.

DEACON, JAMES HENRY, son of James Deacon, Brixton, Surrey, and Frances ---; bapt. 1783; at school 1794; in school lists 1795, 1797; a subscriber to OW Cricket Club 1828; m. 1st, 23 Jan 1821 Flora Alicia, dau. of Joseph McVeagh, Drewston, co. Meath; m. 2nd, 26 Jan 1846 Harriet Elizabeth, widow of Rev. Jonathan Phillips Carpenter, Rector of Sydenham Damerel, Devon, and dau. of Rev. William Garnier, Prebendary of Winchester; d. 16 Jan 1861.

Deacon, Lionel Edmund, son of Ernest Deacon, of London, by Marion Grace; b. March 22, 1879; adm. April 27, 1893 (H); left April 1897.

Deakin, Brian Measures, brother of Frederick William Dampier Deakin (qv); b. 6 Feb. 1922; adm. Sept. 1934 (B); left Dec. 1939; RAFVR 1945-6 (Flt Lieut.); Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1946, BA 1949, MA 1953; The Economist intelligence unit 1957-60, res. dir. 1960-4; Dept of Applied Economics Univ. of Camb. 1964-75; MA (Cantab.) 1967; Sen. Proctor Univ. of Camb. 1973-4; Fellow Magd. Coll. Camb. 1967-, Tutor 1974-; m. 8 May 1954 Ann Philippa, d. of Col. Sidney Earl Buckley MBE MC of Longborough, Glos; d. 2010.

Deakin, Sir Frederick Wilham Dampier, son of Albert Whitney Deakin of Golders Green and Bertha Mildred, d. of Benjamin Measures OBE, of Kimbolton, Hunts; b. 3 July 1913; adm. Sept. 1926 (A); left July 1931; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1931, BA 1935 (1st class hons Mod. History), MA 1938; Amy Preston res. schol. 1935-6; res. for Churchill's life of Marlborough; Fellow and lec­turer Wadham Coll. Oxf. 1936-50, hon. Fellow 1961; RA 1939-45 (Col.), wounded; approved by Churchill as head of first British mission to Marshal Tito in Yugoslavia; DSO 1944; Russian Order of Valour 1944; 1st Sec. HM Embassy Belgrade 1945-6; first Warden of St Antony's Coll. Oxf. 1950, retd 1968, hon. Fellow 1968-; Chevalier Légion d'Honneur 1953; Grosse Verdienst Kreuz 1958; Radcliffe Commission 1961; Kt 1975; hon. FBA 1980; author of The Bru­tal Friendship: Hitler, Mussolini and the Fall of Italian Fascism 1962; The Embattled Mountain 1971; m. 1st 22 Oct. 1935 Margaret Ogilvie, d. of Rev, Sir Nicholas Beatson-Bell KCSI KCIE, Vicar of Cornish Hall End, Essex, sometime Governor of Assam; 2nd 1943 Livia Stela, d. of Liviu Nasta of Bucharest; d. 22 Jan. 2005.

DEALTRY, ---; in school list 1764; left 19 Jul 1764. [Probably William Dealtry, son of Rev. John Dealtry, Rector of Skirpenbeck, Yorks., Prebendary of York and of Southwell; bapt. Skirpenbeck, Yorks. 13 May 1747 (IGI); Jesus Coll. Camb., adm. pens. 8 May 1764, matr. Mich. 1764; 5th Wrangler and BA 1768; MA 1771; Second Smith’s Prizeman; Fellow, Jesus Coll. 1769-75; Proctor 1773; ordained deacon (London) 21 Dec 1769; Rector of Skirpenbeck, Yorks., from 1774; Rector of Bishop Wilton, Yorks. 1783; Rector of Barnby on Don, Yorks., 1785; Prebendary of Southwell from 1785; Rector of Hatcliffe, Lincs., from 1786; Rector of Wigginton, Yorks, from 1786; m. 1st, 6 Feb 1776 Elizabeth Frances, dau. of Francis Barber, Middlethorpe, Yorks.; m. 2nd, 19 Jul 1803 (IGI) Henrietta, dau. of William Sotheron, Darrington, Yorks.; d. 1834 (will proved PCC 19 Mar 1834); father of next].