Reginald Watson Deacon
Reginald Watson Deacon (-1930)
1930 Obituary [1]
REGINALD WATSON DEACON was apprenticed with Messrs. Bryan Donkin and Company of Chesterfield from 1901 to 1910, and afterwards spent six years as draughtsman, first in the gas-engine drawing office of [Ruston and Hornsby|Messrs. Ruston and Hornsby]] and later in the marine Diesel engine drawing office of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Company.
In 1916 he was appointed leading draughtsman at the works of the Sheffield Simplex Company.
After a further short period in 1922 in the drawing office of the Sunbeam Motor Company he entered the drawing office of the Sheffield branch of the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company.
In 1924 he became senior draughtsman with Messrs. Gimson and Company of Leicester, with whom he remained until his death on 24th August 1930.
He became an Associate Member of the Institution in 1929.