Author: Deakin, Henry Charles
Biography:
DEAKIN, Henry Charles, later DAKEYNE (1797-1854: Burke)
He was baptised on 29 Aug. 1797 at Basford, Nottinghamshire, the eldest of six children of John Deakin (1763-1803), farmer and landowner, of Bagthorpe House, Basford, and his wife Anna Maria Beauvoir (formerly Whirledge or Wolrich) (1768-1838), who married on 30 Sept. 1796 at St. Marylebone, London. He was articled to Charles Bownes, attorney, in 1815, and after Bownes’s death, to William Newman in 1818, and proceeded to Lincoln’s Inn. It is unclear how much he practised. He also held a directorship of a railway but may not have been actively involved. He seems to have lived most of his life as a man of property of independent means. He married Mary Gaunt (1799-1879) on 8 Apr. 1823 at St. Edward’s, Leek, Staffordshire. They had two sons and two daughters. He died at 34 Hamilton Terrace, St. John’s Wood, on 26 Mar. 1854, and was buried on 1 Apr., at All Souls, Kensal Green. He dedicated Portraits of the Dead (1829) to Frederick Polhill (1798-1848) who had married his sister, Frances Margaret (or Margaretta), in 1824. He also addressed a poem to her, “The First Born. To Fanny.” (Portraits of the Dead, 259-64). At some time after 1830, the family used the older Dakeyne spelling of their name. (Burke [1849], 89 and [1853], 90; Lincoln’s Inn Admission Registers, 1420-1893, [1896], 94; Morning Post 29 Mar. 1854; GM May 1854, 557; Derby Mercury 21 Apr. 1803) AA
Other Names:
- H. C. Deakin
- H.C. Deakin