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Thomas Carlyle Joseph Robert Hamish Deakin known as Robert Deakin (1917–1985) was the Anglican Bishop of Tewkesbury from 1973 until his death in 1985.He was born in the village of Parkend in The Forest of Dean Gloucestershire the son of Thomas Carlyle Deakin and Harriet Herries Deakin. His grandfather and his father had both been J.P.s and at different times managers of Parkend Colliery.