George Onslow Deane (11 December 1828 – 16 February 1929) was an English

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er.

Life

He was born at

Bighton Bighton is a village and civil parish in the City of Winchester district of Hampshire, England. According to the 2011 census it had a population of 341, compared with 319 in 2001. The village is about north-east of New Alresford. Notable reside ...

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, where his father George Deane (died 1872) was vicar; his mother was Mary Grant, daughter of Thomas Grant of Soberton. He was educated at

Winchester College Winchester College is a public school (fee-charging independent day and boarding school) in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It was founded by William of Wykeham in 1382 and has existed in its present location ever since. It is the oldest of the ...

from 1839, and matriculated at

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in 1846. He became an ensign in the

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in 1848, and a lieutenant in 1851, retiring in 1854. In later life he was a Justice of the Peace for Gloucestershire, residing at The Boyce Court. Deane had the distinction of becoming the first first-class cricketer to reach the age of 100. He died on 16 February 1929 at Dymock,

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aged 100 years and 77 days. He was the only person who played first-class cricket for Hampshire before the formation of

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to reach 100 years of age.

Cricketer

Deane's

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style is unknown. He made a single first-class appearance for

against an All-England Eleven in 1848 at

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. Deane was dismissed twice for a

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in this match, by

William Hillyer William Richard Hillyer (5 March 1813 – 8 January 1861), was a prominent 19th century English professional cricketer for Kent County Cricket Club, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and many other sides in the days before county and international ...

in Hampshire's first-innings, and by John Wisden in their second-innings. The match ended as a draw. This was his only major appearance for Hampshire. Three other cricketers who played first-class cricket after the formation of Hampshire County Cricket Club have also reached 100 years of age: Edward English in 1964,

Neil McCorkell Neil Thomas McCorkell (23 March 1912 – 28 February 2013) was an English cricketer. He was right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born at Portsmouth, Hampshire. Debuting for Hampshire County Cricket Club in 1932, McCo ...

in 2012 and John Manners in 2014.

Family

Deane married in 1852 Georgiana Matilda Drummond, daughter of John Drummond of Boyce Court, near Dymock, Gloucestershire. Their son Horace (1854–1930), later Horace Deane-Drummond, married as his second wife

Sophie Pemberton Sophia Theresa "Sophie" Pemberton or Sophie Pemberton Deane-Drummond (13 February 1869 - 31 October 1959) was a Canadian painter considered to be British Columbia's first professional woman artist. Despite the social limitations placed on female a ...

; he was an army officer, tea planter in

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and rubber planter in

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. His son John Drummond Deane-Drummond by his first marriage to Caroline Betha Vansittart (died 1919, daughter of

William Vansittart William Vansittart (2 May 1813 – 15 January 1878) was a British Conservative Party and Liberal Party politician. Born in 1813, Vansittart was the son of Arthur and Caroline (née Eden) Vansittart. In 1839, he married Emily, daughter of Robert ...

, previously married to Reginald Wynniatt) was father to

Anthony Deane-Drummond Major-General Anthony John Deane-Drummond, CB, DSO, MC & Bar (23 June 1917 – 4 December 2012) was an officer of the Royal Signals in the British Army, whose career was mostly spent with airborne forces. During the Second World War, he was ...

. Deane was the Godfather to Alice Jane Hammersley b 4 March 1852; the daughter of

William Hammersley William Josiah Sumner Hammersley (25 September 1826 – 15 November 1886) was an English-born first-class cricketer and sports journalist in Victoria, Australia, one of the four men credited with setting down the original rules of Australian rule ...

first-class cricketer.Ancestry.com. Manchester, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1915 atabase on-line Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.

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