Thomas Deane
Sir Thomas Deane (
Life
Thomas Deane was born in Cork, the eldest son of Alexander Deane, a builder, and Elizabeth Sharpe.[1] His grandparents and uncle were also builders and architects, and had married into families of the same professions, the Kearns and Hargraves.
His father died in 1806, leaving his mother with seven children to bring up.[2] There was a flaw in his will, which prevented Mrs. Deane from acquiring the properties that he owned in Cork city, and a private Act of Parliament was required to enable her to gain the leases of the properties.[3] Mrs. Deane continued the family business, and Thomas started work there at fourteen years of age. In 1811 he designed his first building, the Cork Commercial Buildings, on South Mall, won in competition against William Wilkins (1778–1839).
Deane was to the forefront of the development of the arts and sciences in his native city.
In 1820 he bought the Ummera Estate in County Cork,[6] and later bought and renovated a Georgian house at Dundanion close to Blackrock.[6]
He designed a number of buildings in the city of
In 1860 he moved to Dublin, buying a house in Longford Terrace in Monkstown. He was elected President of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1866.
He had two children by his first marriage: Julia and John Connellan Deane. Julia died in 1863. John was educated at
By his second marriage, to Eliza, Thomas had three children: Thomas Newenham,[8] born 15 June 1828, Susanna Adelaide (Ada), born 1837, and Olivia Louise, born 1838.
References
Notes
- ^ Dictionary of Irish Architects.
- ^ Dictionary of Irish Biography 2016.
- ^ O'Dwyer 1997, p. 3.
- ^ O'Dwyer 1997, p. 13.
- ^ O'Dwyer 1997, p. 15-16.
- ^ a b O'Dwyer 1997, p. 6.
- ^ O'Dwyer 1997, p. 18.
- ^ Stevens Curl & Wilson 2015, p. 227.
Sources
- O'Dwyer, Frederick (1997). The Architecture of Deane and Woodward. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press. ISBN 0902561855.
- O'Dwyer, Frederick (2016). "Deane, Sir Thomas". .
- Stevens Curl, James; Wilson, Susan (2015). The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191053856.
- "Deane, Thomas (Sir)". Dictionary of Irish Architects. Irish Architectural Archive. Retrieved 30 September 2022.