page_title: John Deane (sailor)
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: John Deane (sailor) / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Church of St Wilfred, Wilford. Named after the important 7th century churchman, Wilfred bishop of York (whose see included Nottingham). The village's name may derive from "Wilfred's Ford"
context_page_description: Captain John Deane was an English sailor with a long career in the Royal Navy and Russian Navy. He rose to the rank of captain in the Royal Navy, commanding in the Capture of Gibraltar. Deane later commanded a trading vessel, the Nottingham Galley, shipwrecked on Boon Island in 1710. Deane spent 1714–1721 in service with the Tsar Peter the Great commanding a Russian naval ship. He then worked in Flanders as British Consul to the Port of Ostend until 1740, when he retired to his native Wilford, Nottingham. He died in 1761 from injuries in a violent assault. His wife died on the next day.
  The many accounts of his life include that of William Henry Giles Kingston, who confirms that Deane "really existed", and Richard H. Warner. His shipwreck on Boon Island and suspected cannibalism appear in accounts by W. C. Riess and A. Nightingale.
context_section_description: John Deane was born in Nottingham in 1679. His father was Jasper Deane, buried at St Wilfrid's Church, Wilford, where John Deane and his wife were also buried. He had one brother, named Jasper after their father, who accompanied Deane on his later voyages aboard the Nottingham Galley.
  Deane's early upbringing was in relative poverty, working as an apprentice to a butcher and drover around Nottingham and London.
  During his time as an apprentice, he is said to have "fallen into bad company" and taken to poaching and deer-stealing, which were serious offences in the late 17th century.
caption: St Wilfrid's Church, Wilford where he was buried
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