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William Frederick Deacon (1799–1844) was an English author and journalistWilliam Frederick Deacon was the first child of six born to a fairly prosperous London merchant. After Reading School Deacon studied at St Catharine’s College Cambridge. However his studies at Cambridge seem to have been desultory and he left the university without a degree but with a poem written during his time at college: ‘Hacho; or the Spell of St.