Robert Deakin (1811-1883) was the son George Deakin and his wife, Elizabeth.  He was baptised at Queen Street (Independent) Chapel.  He trained as a merchant’s clerk and by 1851, when he was living at 83 Arundel Street with his brother, George, he was a ‘factor’.   He established his own business at that address and advertised as a ‘manufacturer and dealer in every description of cutlery’, besides Britannia metal goods and combs, surgical instruments, edge tools, and iron and steel.  By 1856, he had moved to Rock Street.  By the end of the 1870s (when he retired), he was a cutlery and hardware merchant at Hodgson Street.  He died at the house of his brother, George, at Colver Road on 17 May 1883.  He was buried at the General Cemetery, leaving £813.   His wife, Maria, had predeceased him in 1866.