Bargrave Deane Explained

Honorific Prefix:The Right Honourable
Sir Bargrave Deane
Birth Date:28 April 1848
Death Place:London
Successor:Sir Maurice Hill
Office:Justice of the High Court
Termstart:1 February 1905
Termend:1917

Sir Henry Bargrave Finnelley Deane, (28 April 1848  - 21 April 1919)[1] [2] was an English judge.

He was the only son of Sir James Parker Deane and was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford where he won the International Law essay prize in 1870.[1]

In 1870, he was called to the Bar, and from 1892 worked primarily in the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice. He was made Queen's Counsel in 1896.[1]

He served as Recorder of Margate from 1885[1] until he was raised to the bench as a Justice of the High Court on 1 February 1905,[3] being knighted at Buckingham Palace on 10 February. He retired in 1917,[1] was granted an annuity of £3,500, and was sworn of the Privy Council on 16 November that year.[2]

From 1908 to 1911, he was the first Knight Principal of the Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor.[4] He died in London.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Deane, Sir Henry Bargrave Finnelley . 30 . 813.
  2. Web site: Privy Counsellors 1915 - 1968. https://web.archive.org/web/20080607022503/http://leighrayment.com/pcouncil/pcouncil3.htm. 7 June 2008. Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. usurped. 5 February 2018.
  3. News: The Changes at the Law Court. The Sphere. 11 February 1905. 168.
  4. Web site: Officers. The Imperial Society of Knights Batchelor. 5 February 2018.