Anthony Deane MP (1633 - 1721)

Born 3 Dec 1633 in Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Anne (Rowse) Deane — married 1667 in England

Husband of Christian (Lyons) Deane — married 25 Jul 1678 (to before 7 Aug 1687) in St Martin Outwich, London, England

Descendants

Died 11 Jun 1721 at age 87 in Charterhouse Square, London, England

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Anthony Deane MP was born in Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, England.

PPP will be maintained due to the existing confusion about his birth place and parentage. Fitz-Henry-9 19:25, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

His entry in the Dictionary of National Biography contains errors. ^[1]

There is an excellent study of the subject here. So far as it known, he was not related to the Anthony Deane and his family of Harwich, Suffolk.

He has no discernible relationship to Anthony Deane of Dynes Hall.

The starting point for this biography has to be the grant of Arms which places his forbears in Gloucestershire.

Biography

Born on 3 December 1633 at Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire Anthony Deane was the son of Anthony Deane ^[2] and his wife, possibly Elizabeth, daughter of William Wright, barber surgeon of London. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and was apprenticed as a shipwright under Christopher Pett, master shipwright of Woolwich. He was appointed Assistant Shipwright in the Dockyard in 1660.

Anthony Deane MP was featured in the Diary of Samuel Pepys.

It seems that he first met Samuel Pepys on 12 March 1662. ^[3] Anthony was appointed master shipwright at Harwich in 1664. ^[4] His services were no doubt in great demand during the Second Anglo-Dutch War which ended on 31 July 1667. The following year he transferred to Portsmouth Dockyard. Six children born to an Anthony Deane and Anne are recorded as baptised at St Thomas in Portsmouth during the years 1668 to 1675. Nothing explicitly says these were the children of Sir Anthony, merely that they were children of Anthony Deane and Anne.

Anthony was knighted on 3 July 1675. ^[5] He was first returned to Parliament as Member for New Shoreham in 1678. ^[6]

His first wife was Anne who died in 1677 having borne him 4 sons and a daughter. ^[7] Anne is said to have been Anne Prowse but the marriage has not yet been found. (Also read that she was a widow, but sadly didn't make a note of the source).

On 25 July 1678 he married Christian Lyons ^[8] daughter of William Lyons of Bocking, Essex, widow of Sir John Dawes 1st Baronet Dawes of Putney. They had three sons and six daughters. ^[9] The Dictionary of National Biography says he was about 40 at the time of the marriage which is of little help in trying to establish an exact date of birth. ^[10]

Shortly after his return to Parliament as Member for Harwich in March 1679 he and Pepys were embroiled in the Popish Plot, accused by John Scott of giving English secrets to the French. Unlike Pepys, who took to the pen to discover whatever he could to discredit his accuser, Anthony, merely said that the French had no need to learn ship building secrets from the English being so good at it themselves, claimed that he had faithfully served the Navy for nineteen years and added that he had twelve children to support. ^[11] Both were imprisoned in the Tower of London but were eventually released when no evidence against them was forthcoming.

Anthony Dean was granted arms 17 December 1683. ^[12] The grant calls him Anthony Dean of Crutched Friars son of Anthony, gentleman of London deceased son of Anthony of Gloucestershire.

Anthony Deane died 11 June 1721 and was buried at St Olave, Hart St on the 18th. ^[13]

His will may be found here

Armorial Bearings

The distinctive armorial bearings that were granted to Sir Anthony Deane, MP, on 17 Dec. 1683 were based on the arms that were granted to his great grandfather, William Deane. Sir Anthony Deane was granted two additions. First, Sir Anthony Deane's helmet is shown at 3/4 view, as opposed to side view. Second, the crest that Sir Anthony Deane added is a depiction of the stern of the H.M.S. Royal Charles, a first rate ship that Sir Anthony Deane, a naval architect, had designed and constructed. Another change that Sir Anthony made was to replace the crosses crosslets on the chevron with crosses couped.

The charges on both escutcheons appear to have been derived from the same or a closely related blazon. A close approximation of the blazon of William Deane's has been posted on his profile. It includes characteristics of other arms granted to men with surname, Deane.

Sources

1. ↑ Dictionary of National Biography: Anthony Deane
2. ↑ A register of the Scholars admitted to Merchant Taylor's School from AD 1562 to 1874: Anthony Deane NOTE This merely says that he was possibly Sir Anthony Deane
3. ↑ The Diary of Samuel Pepys MA FRS Bohn's Standard Library. Edited by Henry B Wheatley. George Bell and Sons, London 1913. Transcribed by Rev Mynors Bright, MA. Originally published 1893-1899. 8 volumes. "Up early at my office, and I find all people beginning to come to me. Among others Mr Deane, the assistant of Woolwich, who I find will discover to me the whole abuse that his Majesty suffers in the measuring of timber, of which I shall be glad. He promises me also a modell of a ship, which will please me exceedingly, for I do want one of my own."
4. ↑ History of Parliament online: Sir Anthony Deane
5. ↑ History of Parliament online: Sir Anthony Deane
6. ↑ History of Parliament online: Sir Anthony Deane
7. ↑ History of Parliament online: Sir Anthony Deane
8. ↑ Marriage record St Martin Outwich 25 July 1678 Anthony Deane married Dame Christian Dawes
9. ↑ History of Parliament online: Sir Anthony Deane NOTE says he was "aged 40" at the time of his marriage to Christian
10. ↑ Dictionary of National Biography: Anthony Deane
11. ↑ History of Parliament online: Sir Anthony Deane
12. ↑ Grantees of Arms named in doquets and patents to the end of the seventeenth century: Anthony Dean
13. ↑ Burial record St Olave, Hart St: Antho Deane 18 June 1721

See Also

• Brian Lavery, ‘Deane, Sir Anthony (c.1638–1720?)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 17 Sept 2017. This is a subscription site but access is free to readers of British libraries whose library subscribes.

• Dictionary of National Biography: Sir Anthony DeaneMistaken about his parentage

• Wikipedia: Anthony Deane (mayor)

• The East Anglian: Notes an Queries etc The claim that he purchased Hyde Park in about 1652 for £9020 8s 2d must be taken with a grain of salt, he being about 19 at the time and nine thousand pounds being a great deal of money. Presumably this was another Anthony Deane

• The People's History of Essex

• "The Life of Richard Deane" by John Bathurst Deane, (1797-1887), Publication date 1870, London, Page 551; based on input from Edmund Lenthall Swifte a descendant of Richard Deane, General-at-Sea. [1]

• "Grantees of Arms Named in Doquets and Patents to the End of the Seventeenth Century," [2], British Museum, Edited by W. Harry Rylands, F.S.A.,1915 London, p. 72, Digitized by Internet Archive in 2016. Entry for William Deane, Bearings confirmed 8 May 1577, by Flower of Gosfield, Essex (2nd son of Wm., son of I. of County Lanc (Lancaster?).

• "The Infernal Diver" by Dr. John Bevan, published by Submex, London 1996, p. 147 [3], [4], [5]]

• "HMS Royal Charles (1673)" Wikipedia, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Royal_Charles_%281673%29

• "HMS Royal Charles, a Visit from the King" by James A. Flood, [6]

• "British First Rate ship of the line 'Royal Charles' (1673)" [7]

• Wikimedia Commons, Category:Crosses couped in heraldry [8]

Acknowledgements

• Many thanks to Helen Ford for pointing me to sources.
• Thanks to the author of Anthony Deane who alerted me to the problems with the ancestry of Sir Anthony.

Research notes

1. The Diary of Samuel Pepys MA FRS Bohn's Standard Library. Edited by Henry B Wheatley. George Bell and Sons, London 1913. Transcribed by Rev Mynors Bright, MA. Originally published 1893-1899. 8 volumes. 12 August 1662 Footnote "Anthony Deane eldest son of Anthony Deane mariner of Harwich, Essex was born about 1638, celebrated as a shipbuilder. He was appointed to Woolwich Dockyard at the Restoration and was subsequently master shipwright at Harwich in 1664 and at Portsmouth in 1668. In 1672 he was Commissioner of the Navy at Portsmouth, and in 1675 Comptroller of the victualing and was knighted about that time. He was MP for Shoreham in 1678, and for Harwich in 1679 and in 1685 (with Pepys) and elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1681. He was committed to the Tower with Pepys in 1679, and discharged in the following year. He died in Charterhouse Square in 1721 (see Duckett's "Naval Commissioners" 1889 p 71."

2. Email communication

I have been studying the Deane name in and around Harwich for many years and would love to claim Sir Anthony as an ancestor. However, parish records and other resources show that he was not the son of a mariner from Harwich. Sir Anthony is described in his Grant of Arms in 1683, as "son of Anthony Deane, of London, gent., and grandson of Anthony Deane, of Gloucester,"

The error of assuming Sir Anthony Deane to be the son of Anthony Deane of Harwich would appear to stem from the Dictionary of National Biography, published 1888:

DEANE, Sir ANTHONY (1638? -1721), shipbuilder, was the eldest son of Anthony Deane, mariner, of Harwich, Essex, who died in 1659 (Will reg. in P.C.C.277, Pell)

Unfortunately the error in this book is being perpetuated thoughout the internet.

Comparison of known facts between Sir Anthony and the Anthony Deanes of Harwich

Sir Anthony born circa 1630 Shipwright died 1721 London

Anthony of Harwich born circa 1590 Labourer died 1647 Harwich

Anthony son of above born circa 1620 Mariner buried 9 February1657/8 Harwich

Anthony son of above born 1644 Mariner died 1716 Harwich The entry for the burial of Anthony Deane 1644-1716 (the actual son of Anthony Deane, mariner) in St. Nicholas, Harwich registers says - Anthony Deane, late an alderman of this borough and many years commander of one of HM Post Office Packets who departed this life March XII MDCCXVI in the 74th year of his age.

3. 2nd Email communication

I found your profile of Sir Anthony Deane. Unfortunately as with many genealogic searches some of my data doesn't fit in with your data.

I have him being born in 1638 and baptized in 1644.

According to my data he first married Anne Prowse on 26-09-1667. She was buried in St. Olave's Hart street, London on 16-03-1676.

His father Anthony Deane married Elizabeth Wright.

His grandfather also named Anthony Deane born in 1576, died in 1659 and married Gillian Humphrey.

Most interesting was his great-grandfather William Deane born in 1550? died 22-07-1634 and married to Margaret Wykerah/Wycham. Here is the link that connects the Deane family with the Spencer family of Diana, princess of Wales. William Deane eldest son Edward Deane, born in 1574 in Taunton, died in 1633 and married Ann Wase/Wace born in 1594, buried 1670. They are ancestors of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.