Dr Vera Frances Deacon OAM (née Pember, 19 July 1926 – 16 May 2021) was an Australian historian, writer and philanthropist.
[1][2][3][4] Deacon was born in the Newcastle suburb of Mayfield and raised on Dempsey and Mosquito Island (also known as Moscheto), on the Hunter River.
[8] The Vera Deacon Regional History Fund was established in her honour in 2008.
She was named Freeman of the City of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia in 2019.
[9] In 2020 Deacon was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to community history and to conservation.