Thomas Deane [also known as Sir Thomas Deane] was born in Dundanion, Blackrock, Cork, Ireland on 4 June 1792. From the age of fourteen he worked in the family building firm in Cork. By 1809 he had already embarked on a career as an architect and in 1811 won a competition to design a commercial building in Cork. In 1851 he formed a partnership with his son, Thomas Newenham Deane (1828-1899) and Benjamin Woodward (1815-1861) under the name Deane, Son & Woodward [commonly known as Deane & Woodward. In 1853 they opened an office in Dublin and an office in London in 1855. They closed the office in Cork in c.1857 closed the office in Cork.
Deane was a member of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) and its Vice-President in 1851-1854, 1864,1866, 1867, 1868, and President in 1868-69. He was also elected a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1860 and its President from 1845 to 1848. He was knighted in 1830 and died at Longford Terrace, Monkstown, County Dublin on 2 October 1871.
Dundanion Castle in Cork, designed for himself (1832); Cork Savings Bank (1835-1842); St. John's Episcopal Free Church, Cork (1837-40); a savings bank in Limerick (1839); a branch of the Bank of Ireland in South Mall, Cork (1839-40); Queen's College Cork (1846-49); the District Lunatic Asylum in Co. Kerry (1847-52); the restoration of Carrigrohane Castle in Co. Cork (1849-50); Trinity College Museum, Dublin, with partners (1854-60); Museum of Natural History, Oxford (1855-60); Crown Life Insurance Building, Bridge Street, London, with partnerrs (1855-58); Llysdulas, near Llanwennlyfo, Anglesey, Wales, with partners (1856); Oxford Union Society, Oxford, with partners (1856-57); Kildare Street Club, Dublin with partners (1858-61); Alterations to Kilkenny Castle, Ireland, with partners (1858-62).
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