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.