Richard Deane (priest) explained

Richard Deane was an Irish Anglican priest in the second half of the 17th century.^[1]

Daene was educated at Trinity College, Dublin after which he became Vicar of Rower.^[2] He was deprived after the Irish Rebellion of 1641. In 1662 he became a prebendary of Lismore^[3] and a year later Archdeacon of Waterford,^[4] He was archdeacon until his resignation in 1667; and prebendary until 1680.

References

1. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. .
2. "Parliamentary Army Chaplains, 1642–1651" Laurence, A, p120: Woodbridge; Royal Historical Society, Studies in History No. 59; 1990
3. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p189 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
4. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p151 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878