Born in Great Torrington, Devon, England
Ancestors 
Daughter of William Johnson
and Elizabeth (Reynolds) Johnson
Sister of
Samuel Johnson, William Johnson, Richard Johnson, Mary (Johnson) Furse, Frances (Johnson) Yonge and Jane (Johnson) Yonge
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 86
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 1 Aug 2018
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Biography
Elizabeth was born in 1756. She was the third daughter of William Johnson and Elizabeth Reynolds. She passed away in 1841. She was baptized 17 December 1756 in St Michael and All Angels Church, Great Torrington, Devon.
A beauty, she is believed to be the sitter in her uncle Sir Joshua Reynolds’s portrait, ‘A girl’ (c. 1780); Reynolds recorded an appointment with her for 4 April 1780. She was the model for a figure in one of Reynolds’s stained glass windows at New College, Oxford.
Elizabeth Deane was the wife of the Revd William Deane (d. 11 May 1818), the squire of Webbery, north of Torrington, sometime fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and archdeacon of Norwich. (Elizabeth’s uncle, the Revd Daniel Johnson, was vicar of Great Torrington.) He died 11 May 1818. Their only son, Anthony William Johnson Deane, was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford (matriculated 1818); in 1821 he eloped with Sarah Elizabeth Stable of Hanover Square, London.[1] Elizabeth Deane’s cousin was the Marchioness of Thormond. In the summer of 1797 William Wordsworth saved Elizabeth’s cousin, Charles William Johnson, from drowning.
Notes:
1 ‘Married ... A. W. J. Deane esq. To S. E. Deane third daughter of L. Stable of Hanover-square, London, having been previously married, according to the laws of Scotland’ (New Monthly Magazine).
Sources
- Devon Record Office, Luppincott of Alverdiscott deposit (892M).
- ‘Will of Elizabeth Deane, Widow of Great Torrington, Devon’, 8 September 1842, PRO PROB 11/1968.
- ‘Will of Reverend William Deane, Clerk of Torrington, Devon’, 8 June 1818, PRO PROB 11/1605.
- Alumni Oxon.
- Gentleman’s Magazine 88 (1818), p. 573.
- New Monthly Magazine 3 (1821), p. 202.
- A. Graves, et al., A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1899), p. 527.
- Parish Registers of England and Wales, Great Torrington: www.green.gen.name/johnson. [accessed 5 May 2009]
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