George Deacon

Sir George Edward Raven Deacon CBE FRS[1] FRSE (21 March 1906 – 16 November 1984) was a British oceanographer and chemist.

He was born in Leicester, the son of George Raven Deacon and his wife Emma (née Drinkwater).

He has shown that practically all the bottom water of the Antarctic origin in all the oceans is formed in the Weddell Sea."

[3] During the Second World War he initially worked on HMS Osprey, Portland involved in anti-submarine warfare.

His proposers were James Ritchie, John Barclay Tait, Cyril Edward Lucas, and Vero Wynne-Edwards.