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DEANE, RICHARD (1610-1653)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 898 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DEANE, See also:RICHARD (1610-1653) , See also:British See also:general-at-See also:sea, See also:major-general and See also:regicide, was a younger son of See also:Edward Deane of See also:Temple Guiting or Guyting in See also:Gloucestershire, where he was See also:born, his See also:baptism taking See also:place on the 8th of See also:July 161o. His See also:family seems to have been strongly Puritan and was related to many of those See also:Buckinghamshire families who were prominent in the See also:parliamentary party. His See also:uncle or See also:great-uncle was See also:Sir Richard Deane, See also:lord See also:mayor of See also:London, 1628-1629. Of Deane's See also:early See also:life nothing is accurately known, but he seems to have had some sea training, possibly on a See also:ship-of-See also:war. At the outbreak of the See also:Civil War he joined the parliamentary See also:army as a volunteer in the See also:artillery, a See also:branch of the service with which he was constantly and honourably associated. In 1644 he held a command in the artillery under See also:Essex in See also:Cornwall and took See also:part in the surrender after See also:Lostwithiel. Essex (See also:Letter to Sir See also:Philip Stapleton, See also:Rush-See also:worth Collection) calls him " an honest, judicious and stout See also:man," an estimate of Deane See also:borne out by See also:Clarendon's " bold and excellent officer " (See also:book xiv. cap. 27), and he was one of the few See also:officers concerned in the surrender who were retained at the remodelling of the army. Appointed See also:comptroller of the See also:ordnance, he commanded the artillery at See also:Naseby and during See also:Fairfax's See also:campaign in the See also:west of See also:England in 1645. In 1647 he was promoted See also:colonel and given a See also:regiment. In May of that See also:year See also:Cromwell was made lord-general of the forces in See also:Ireland by the See also:parliament, and Deane, as a supporter of Cromwell who had to be reckoned with, was appointed his See also:lieutenant of artillery. Cromwell refused to be thus put out of the way, and Deane followed his example.

When the war See also:

broke out afresh in 1648 Deane went with Cromwell to See also:Wales. As brigadier-general his leading of the right wing at See also:Preston contributed greatly to the victory. On the entry of the army into London in 1648, Deane superintended the seizure of treasure at the See also:Guildhall and Weavers' See also:Hall the See also:day after See also:Pride " purged " the See also:House of See also:Commons, and accompanied Cromwell to the consultations as to the " See also:settlement of the See also:Kingdom " with See also:Lenthall and Sir See also:Thomas See also:Widdrington, the keeper of the great See also:seal. I-Ie is rightly called by Sir J. K. Laughton (in the See also:Diet. of Nat. Biog.) Cromwell's " trusted See also:partisan," a See also:character which he maintained in the active and responsible part taken by him in the events which led up to the trial and See also:execution of the See also:king. He was one of the commissioners for the trial, and a member of the See also:committee which examined the witnesses. He signed the See also:death See also:warrant. Deane's capacities and activities were now required for the See also:navy. In 1649 the See also:office of lord high See also:admiral was put into See also:commission. The first commissioners were Edward See also:Popham, See also:Robert See also:Blake and Deane, with the See also:title of generals-at-sea.

His command at sea was interrupted in 1651, when as major-general he was brought back to the army and took part in the See also:

battle of See also:Worcester. Later he was made See also:president of the commission for the settlement of See also:Scotland, with supreme command of the military and See also:naval forces. At the end of 1652 Deane returned to his command as general-at-sea, where Monck had succeeded Popham, who had died in 1651. In 1653 Deane was with Blake in command at the battle off See also:Portland and later took the most prominent and active part in the refittingof the See also:fleet on the reorganization of the naval service. At the outset of the three days' battle off the See also:North See also:Foreland, the 1st, and and 3rd of See also:June 1653, Deane was killed. His See also:body See also:lay in See also:state at See also:Greenwich and after a public funeral was buried in See also:Henry VII.'s See also:chapel at See also:Westminster See also:Abbey, to be disinterred at the Restoration. See J. See also:Bathurst Deane, The Life of Richard Deane (187o).

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