Frederic Deane

Who was Frederic Deane?

Frederic Llewellyn Deane was the inaugural Provost of St. Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow and then bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney from 1917 to 1943.

Frederic was born at Stainton le Vale in Lincolnshire on 19 September 1868, the son of Francis Hugh Deane, Rector of Horsington and Stainton, and his wife and 2nd cousin, Emma Anne, the daughter of Robert Micklem Deane of Caversham in Oxfordshire. Educated at Keble College, Oxford, he had previously been a Curate in Kettering and Vicar of St Andrew, Diocese of Leicester.