Generations of Trinity Alumni Hector Deane ’s great grandmother kept the family’s educational records in a scrapbook that creates a time capsule through centuries of Trinity history Hector Deane BA (1970) T he Hargrave/Deane association with Trinity stretches back 200 years and bears witness to major historic events, both in barrel-vaulted ceiling in the Trinity Long Room and, soon after with the design of the Museum Building. Thomas Manly Deane, son of TN Deane, entered Trinity and worldwide. It includes the architect who Trinity in 1868. During his career as an architect, he gave us the magnificent barrel-vaulted ceiling in the designed Trinity’s War Memorial Hall and Reading Long Room and the Museum Building, Room, where tragically is to be found champion rowers and rugby players, inscribed the name of his graduate medical surgeons and doctors at the son, Thomas Alexander David Deane, front during wars, and the Spanish Flu . who had died at Gallipoli on 3 May M y great-great-grandfather, William 1915. Remarkably, all three Thomas Hargrave entered Trinity circa 1813. Deanes were knighted for services His father, Abraham, was a builder to architecture. and architect in Cork. William was Elizabeth, a daughter of William elected President of the Royal College Hargrave, married Alexander Sharp of Surgeons, Ireland in 1853. In 1823, Deane I, her first cousin. This great William married Elizabeth, daughter of another Cork builder Alexander Deane, A portrait of William Hargrave grandmother retained many of the papers in a scrapbook that tell the and his wife Elizabeth, née Sharp. Deane/Hargrave story. Alexander Sharp Deane II, Thomas Deane Hargrave, William’s eldest son, entered her eldest son, entered Trinity in 1870. A surgeon, he Trinity in 1840 and became a surgeon, while Henry served in the Chinese Maritime Customs Service. Henry James Bennett Hargrave, the youngest son, entered Hargrave Deane I, son of Alexander Sharp Deane I, the School of Engineering in 1854. He entered the School of Engineering became engineer-in-chief of the Bombay in 1877 and he was active in the DU Baroda and Central India Railway. Rowing Club. Subsequently, he became William Hargrave’s brother-in-law engineer-in-chief of the Rajputana was Thomas Deane, who developed Malwa Railway. the family building and architectural business in Cork. Thomas Deane’s son, Thomas Newenham Deane, entered Trinity in 1845. As an architect, he entered the partnership of Deane and Woodward when it moved to Dublin. TN Deane was involved in the design of the Henry James Bennett Hargrave My grandfather, Charles Chatterton Deane, Elizabeth’s youngest son, entered Trinity in 1885. He served for 30 years as general practitioner at Loughgall and was awarded an OBE for services as County Director of the Red Cross during the Great War. Hugh Alexander Sharp
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