Anthony Deane ( 1633 - 1721 )

Birth: Gloucestershire, England (03 December 1633) Death: His house in Charterhouse Square, London (11 June 1721) Burial Place: London Profession: Shipbuilder Education: Merchant Taylors' School (1646) Career: Sailor; Assistant Shipwright, Woolwich Dockyard (1660); Master Shipwright at Harwich (1664), and at Portsmouth (1668-1675); Commissioner of the Navy (1672-1675, 1685-1688); Comptroller of Victualling (1675-1680); Mayor of Harwich (1676, 1682); built two yachts for Louis XIV (1675); Commissioner for Assessment for Harwich (1677-1679); MP for New Shoreham (1678); MP for Harwich (1679, 1685); with his friend Samuel Pepys (FRS 1665), he was accused of carrying on a secret correspondence with the French and imprisoned in the Tower of London (1679), although no charges were brought against them; Comptroller of Stores (1680); resigned his post (1680); Elder Brother, Trinity House (1685-1689); imprisoned for some months as a Jacobite suspect after the Glorious Revolution; many of his manuscripts are preserved in the Rawlinson Collection in the Bodleian Library; according to his will, proved on 19 Jun 1721, he wished to be buried in 'the vault where my family now lyeth in Crutchett Fryers, London'. Honours: Kt 1661 Memberships: Royal Fisheries Company (1677) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 6/04/1681 Council: 1682, 1684, 1686, 1692.