Frederick Horace Deacon (January 1829 – 20 November 1875, in Brixton, London) was a British chess master.
[1] He is mainly notable for spurious claims to have drawn against Paul Morphy,[2][3][4][5][6] making himself both notorious and unpopular.
[7][8] He won a match against W. Gilby (2–1) and lost a match to Charles Edward Ranken (0–2) at London 1851 (Provincial, Samuel Boden won).
[9] Deacon won matches against Edward Löwe (7½–2½) in 1851, and Carl Mayet (5–2) in 1852.
[11] He took 2nd, behind George Henry Mackenzie, at London 1862 (handicap),[12] shared 11th at London 1862 (the 5th BCA Congress, Adolf Anderssen won),[13] and lost a match to Wilhelm Steinitz (1½–5½) at London 1863.