HENRY DEACON. 



A philosophical mind applied to the arts 

 and manufactures, to commerce and to public 

 affairs ; such was Henry Deacon. He was 

 born in London on the 3Oth July, 1822. 



An old and intimate friend of the family 

 writes: About 1680, a William Deacon 

 was born at Crawford, Northamptonshire; he 

 is said to have invented some weaving 

 machinery, which was broken up by the 

 populace, as they said it took the bread out 

 of poor men's mouths. His son William 

 lived at Kettering, Northamptonshire. I 

 believe he made cloth. He and his wife 

 lived 56 years together, having 12 children, 

 five of the sons grew up, and all came to 

 London ; they were quick, versatile, and 

 inventive. They all made money, though 

 some of them lost it again ; one of them 

 established " Deacon 's Coffee House, "another 

 made hot-air pipes and heating and ventilating 

 apparatus, another wrote a book on conical 

 wheels. The youngest, Daniel, apprenticed 

 to a watchmaker, became one of me largest 

 carriers, before railways. The mother 



