Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 2198 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Leonard Charlton Mather Deas, political agent to Sir Cuthbert Headlam, MP for Barnard Castle
Covering Dates: 1927-2019
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Born 14 March 1900, son of J.A. Charlton Deas. Educated Bede Collegiate High School, Sunderland and Barnard Castle County School.Married Hilda Stanners while working for Cuthbert Headlam, she died late 1940s. They had one child, Maureen, born 1938.
Married Stella High, nee Londesborough, 1951, with one son, Roger. They had one son, Stephen, born 1952. She was a Geography graduate from the University of Leeds, a qualified and serving teacher, a left wing Liberal.
Deas died in 1985, aged 85. Stella died in 2003
Sir Cuthbert Headlam, reflecting in his diary for 1930 on having lost the seat for Barnard Castle in the 1929 election, lays part of the blame on Leonard Deas, who was at the time beginning to undergo a nervous breakdown. Interestingly, in his cv, Deas makes no mention of Headlam.
See also D/He
Catalogue Contents
Leonard Charlton Mather Deas, political agent to Sir Cuthbert Headlam, MP for Barnard Castle (Ref: D/X 2198)Correspondence (Ref: D/X 2198/1/1-3)Ref: D/X 2198/1/1
Letter from Allan Hand, Secretary of Durham County Unionist Association, 6 Old Elvet, Durham to L Deas, Bewick House, Fawdon, agreeing to give a reference for him in his application for a position with Ponteland District Council, Northumberland, 22 February 1927
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 2198/1/2Letter, Hugh Orr Ewing, Highfield, Lane End, near High Wycombe, to 'Deas' wishing him luck for the 1928 election in the Barnard Castle Division, and that he has confidence in him so that if 'we don't succeed in keeping the Barnard Castle seat I know it won't be your fault'; he will be seeing [Cuthbert] Headlam soon, 1 January 1928
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 2198/1/3Letter from Henry Page Croft, 15 Southwell Gardens, Gloucester Road, London SW7, to L.C. Mather Deas, c/o F.W. Allday Esq., 8a Richmond Hill, Bournemouth, thanking him for speaking to his constituents in Bournemouth, enclosing a cheque for £12 which he had promised Colonel Headlam as a contribution if Deas could speak at meetings in Bournemouth, 18 January 1928
[Croft was in favour of tariff reform, and Deas spoke on this issue, for example in Poole - see D/X 2198/2
(1 paper)
Political meetings (Ref: D/X 2198/2)Ref: D/X 2198/2Notice for meeting at the Poole Conservative Club, speaker Mr L.C. Mather Deas (Empire Industries Association), subject Empire Preferences, H Linklater Esquire will preside, S.M. Woodford, secretary, 23 January [1928]
(1 paper, printed)
Curriculum vitae (Ref: D/X 2198/3/1-2)Ref: D/X 2198/3/1Curriculum vitae, c.1948
1916-1921 apprentice at Priestman Colliery
1922-1926 worked for Harold Armstrong & Son, auctioneers and estate agents, Newcastle upon Tyne
1926-1929 speaking for, and on staff of Sir Henry Page Croft, M.P. for Bournemouth
1930-1934 nervous breakdown then working for Central Electricity Board
1934-1941 joined Messrs Underwood, Elliott Fisher Limited, manufacturers and distributors of accounting machines etc
1942-1948 Machinery Organiser with East Riding of Yorkshire Executive Committee
(3 papers)
Ref: D/X 2198/3/2Addendum to curriculum vitae, by son Stephen Deas, 20 July 2019
Following Leonard Deas working for the East Riding's War Agricultural Committee, he formed a company with a group of farmers, with Deas as managing director, Leonard Deas & Company Limited, Swinemoor Road, Beverley, which was taken over and wound up in 1964
(1 paper)
