Humphry Deane [also known incorrectly as Humphrey Deane] was born in London, England on 18 November 1883 and was active as an architect in London from the 1900s to at least the late 1930s. From c.1912 to the late 1930s he was in partnership with Thomas Arthur Darcy Braddell (1884-1970) in the London architectural practice Braddell & Deane [also known as Deane & Braddell] Deane & Braddell. By the late 1930s a third partner had joined the practice and the firm had been renamed Braddell, Deane & Bird
Deane was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1939.
His address was given as 152 Harley Street W, St Marylebone, London in 1911; St Marylebone, London in 1921; Victor House, Portman Square, London, and Comports Place, Tandridge Lane, Blindley Heath, Godstone, Surrey in 1939; and White Cliffs, Barham, near Canterbury, Kent in 1955. He died on 20 February 1955
‘A House in Middlesex Designed by Darcy Braddell and Humphry Deane’. Country Life 7 April 1934 pp.352-355
Braddell, Darcy. ‘The Future of English Domestic Architecture IV. The Town House’. Architecture, a magazine of architecture and the applied arts and crafts; London vol. 9, issue 51, September 1931 pp. 124-130 [Features work by Humphry Deane and Darcy Braddell]