(14 April 1659 – 23 May 1728) was an English clergyman and academic, President of St John's College, Oxford,[1] and chaplain to Queen Anne.
Thomas Hearne claims that he was nicknamed "Gallio" by his systematic neglect of his duties, and charges him with embezzling the contents of the University Chest.
His successor William Lancaster made attempts to recover the money, apparently without much success, and subsequent vice-chancellors were less exacting.
Hearne mentions that a candidate taunted him in public with the comment Jacta est alea; the same story is told in Terrae Filius, the author of which, Nicholas Amhurst, Delaune is said to have expelled from St John's.
Delaune published in 1728 Twelve Sermons upon several Subjects and Occasions, dedicated to Montagu Venables-Bertie, 2nd Earl of Abingdon.