Sir Thomas Manly Deane (1851 – 1933) was an Irish

Irish people

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 architect

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, the son of Sir Thomas Newenham Deane

Thomas Newenham Deane

Sir Thomas Newenham Deane was an Irish architect, the son of Sir Thomas Deane, and father of Sir Thomas Manly Deane, who were also architects....

 and grandson of Sir Thomas Deane

Thomas Deane

Sir Thomas Deane was an Irish architect. He was the father of Sir Thomas Newenham Deane, and grandfather of Sir Thomas Manly Deane, who were also architects.-Life:...

, who were also architects.

Born at Ferney House, Blackrock

Blackrock, County Cork

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, Cork

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, on 8 June 1851, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin

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, and travelled in France

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 and Italy

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 before joining his father's practice. Deane went into partnership with his father from 1884 till his father's death in 1899, when he joined Sir Aston Webb

Aston Webb

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He designed three buildings of note in Dublin, Ireland. These are the National Museum and National Library on Kildare Street and also in the 1937 Reading Room in Trinity College Dublin.

He was knight

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ed in 1911 and died in Wales

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on 3 February 1933.