John Deane (colonial administrator)

John Deane was an administrator of the English East India Company. He served as President of Bengal in the early eighteenth century.^[1]^{[self-published source?]}

For over twenty years, he lived with an Indian mistress, Mussumaut Matloob Brish, with whom he had six children.^[2]

Political offices
Preceded by Samuel Flake	President of Bengal 17 January 1723 – 30 January 1726	Succeeded by Henry Frankland
Preceded by Edward Stephenson	President of Bengal 18 September 1728 – 25 February 1732	Succeeded by John Stackhouse

^ Provinces of British India - World Statesmen
^ Ghosh, Durga (2006). Sex and the family in colonial India: The Making of Empire. Cambridge University Press. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-521-85704-8.