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Richard Burton Deane, 1848-1930, was born in India, moved to England at age four, and may have attended Sandhurst military college. He joined the Royal Marines in 1866 and served until 1882 when he came to Canada. He was commissioned as an inspector in the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) and in 1884 was appointed superintendent. He served at Regina and Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, and in Calgary and Lethbridge, Alberta before taking his discharge in 1915. In 1916 he published his memoirs Mounted Police Life in Canada. He retired to England and died in Italy. Deane married Martha Critchen Ridout in 1870 and they had five children, Harold, Henry, Reginald, Jessie (Dickinson), and Lily (Primrose).
For further information see Pioneer Policing : Deane of the Mounties, 1888-1914 / edited by William M. Baker. - Calgary : Alberta Records Publication Board, Historical Society of Alberta, 1993; Tales of a Mounted Police Officer : Superintendent R. Burton Deane of the Lethbridge NWMP Division, 1888-1902 / selected and edited by William M. Baker; Carlton R. Stewart, publication/designer coordinator. -- Lethbridge : Lethbridge Historical Society, 1999; and William Baker's entry, "Richard Burton Deane", in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. XV, at www.biographi.ca.