John Deane (MP)


Sir John Deane of Dyne's Hall in the parish of Great Maplestead in Essex, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1622.

Origins

Deane was the only son of William Deane of Dyne's Hall, Great Maplestead, Essex, by his second wife Anne Egerton, a daughter of Thomas Egerton of London, merchant, and widow of George Blyth, MP, Secretary to the Council of the North.
William Deane, "a younger son of Lancashire stock", had been the steward and third husband of Anne Wentworth, one of the three daughters and co-heiresses of Sir John Wentworth of Gosfield Hall in Essex, and the widow successively of Sir Hugh Rich and then of Henry FitzAlan, Lord Maltravers, son and heir apparent of Henry FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel. In 1575 William Deane acquired and rebuilt Dyne's Hall, near Gosfield Hall, and lived there after his first wife's death, when he remarried to Anne Egerton, the widow of George Blythe, Clerk of the Council of the North in 1572, and a younger daughter of Thomas Egerton, Citizen and Mercer of the City of London, who "claimed to be descended from the Egertons of Wrinehill in Cheshire". Her brother was Stephen Egerton, the Puritan preacher of St Anne’s in the Blackfriars.

Career

Deane matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford on 24 October 1595, aged 12 and was awarded BA on 8 November 1600. In 1600, he became a law student at Lincoln's Inn. Knighted on 11 May 1603, he was a Justice of the Peace for Essex from 1607 until his death being appointed High Sheriff of Essex for 1610/11. In 1621, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Essex. Deane died at the age of about 42 and was interred in Great Maplestead Church, where survives his mural monument with recumbent effigy dressed in full armour.

Marriage and issue

Deane married Anne Drury, second daughter of Sir Drue Drury, of Riddlesworth Hall in Norfolk, a courtier and Member of Parliament, by whom he had 2 sons and 6 daughters. He is mentioned on the inscribed monument of Sir Drue Drury in Riddlesworth Church, marshalled with Deane.
His wife's monument with standing effigy survives in Great Maplestead Church, inscribed as follows: