San Diego County Biographies
  
J. E. DEAKIN 

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Was born February 1, 1851.  He is the second son of J. E. Deakin, F. R. S., of 
Eastbury Manor, Worcestershire, England, a descendant of the old Norman family 
De Akyn, who have been landowners in that locality since A. D. 1372. Mr. Deakin 
has always been a lawyer. He graduated as Master of Arts and Master of Laws in 
the old University of Cambridge in 1873, and as Doctor of Laws in London 
University in 1875, and was initiated into the mysteries of law in the venerable 
precincts of Lincoln's Inn, London, under the guidance of Sir Joseph W. Chitty, 
Q. C., now senior judge of the Court of Chancery in England. In 1880 Mr. Deakin 
left London and entered an old law firm, Tyndall & Co., in Birmingham, England, 
and the same year married Miss Lily Tarbolton, of that town. In 1885, on the 
death of his old partner, Mr. Tyndall, he decided to try the New World, and came 
to San Francisco, where he was immediately admitted as an attorney of our 
Supreme Court and of the United States Circuit Court. In January, 1886, in the 
early days of the " boom," he came to San Diego, and at once joined the veteran 
of the bar, Major Chase, with whom he remained until that gentleman retired from 
active practice. Mr. Deakin is now associated with Mr. Hampden Story, and the 
firm enjoys a fair share of the more important land and corporation litigation 
of the place.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California… Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  251