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.
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