Henry James Deane
Henry James Deane (1876-1948)
1948 Obituary [1]
1949 Obituary [2]
"HENRY JAMES DEANE, B.Eng., whose death occurred on 19th October 1948, was the principal of Messrs. Deane and Mason, consulting engineers, Westminster. He was elected a Member of the Institution in 1917 and was also a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. In addition he was a Past President of the Institution of Structural Engineers.
He was born in 1876 and educated at All Saints College, Bathurst, N.S.W., and at the University of Sydney, where he graduated as Bachelor of Engineering in 1897. His practical training was obtained with the Clyde Engineering Co, of Sydney, and at the Ultimo Tramway Power Station in that city. Coming to England in 1900 he joined the staff of Sir Benjamin Baker, consulting engineer, Westminster, as assistant engineer, and seven years later was promoted to be chief assistant engineer. He was in 1913 appointed chief assistant engineer to the Port of London Authority, in which capacity he was responsible for the maintenance of the whole of the Authority's plant, including tugs, dredgers, and locomotives. He relinquished this position in 1924 and began to practise on his own account as a consulting engineer, Mr. John Mason, A.M.I.C.E., being admitted into partnership in 1946."