The second wife and widow of Nicholas Howe, poet-laureate. She was a gentlewoman whose ancestry and ultimate fate, except that she was of a good family named Devenish, in Dorsetshire, and remarried " Colonel Deane," appear to have baffled the biographers and anno- tators of her first husband and his writings. She was the dau., and apparently only surviving child, by his first wife, of Joseph Devenish, Gent, (third son of Francis Devenish, of Gillingham, co. Dorset, Gent., by Anne his wife), who was buried at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, Midx., 7 Oct. 1733, and whose will she proved on the 10th of that month. She married, first, as early as 1717, as her only dau. was born before 1 July in the following year, Nicholas Kowe, Esq. (sec his burial 19 Dec. 1718), to whom she was second wife. She married, secondly, at St. Margaret's, West minster, 31 Jan. 1723-4, Col. Alexander Deanes, who was buried at St. James, Westminster, 7 Nov. 1731. His will, as of Arlington Street, St. George's, Hanover Square, Midx., Esq., dated 8 Oct. 1731, was proved by her 13 Jan. 1731-2, she being his sole legatee. If, as is asserted by the editor of Johnson's Lives of the Poets (edit. 1854, ii. 113), she was the " widow " of Pope's " Dialogue II.," published in 1738, an admirable illustration is furnished of the manner in which that poet nursed his wrath, for her second marriage had taken place fourteen years before, and her second husband had been dead half that period, quite long enough to have been forgotten. She died, according to the Funeral Book, 6 Dec, aged sixty-five. Her will, as of Bruton Street, St. George's, Hanover Square, dated 20 Aug. 1747, was proved 20 Jan. 1747-8. Owing to some extraordinary fatality among her father's brothers and their issue, she had come into the possession of the manors of Buckhorn-Weston and Lydlinch, in co. Dorset, and other lands in that county and in co. Somerset, all of which she bequeathed in trust for her grand-daughter Charlotte Fane (see the burial of her mother 7 Oct. 1739, and note thereto). Pier house in Bruton Street, with its contents, and an annuity of £100, she left to Sarah Peele, spinster, whom she called her " sister," but who was evidently, from her father's will, the only dau. of his second wife and relict, by a former husband. She mentioned no other relations, and appears to have been the last survivor of her family, although her grandfather, at his death in 1689, left surviving no fewer than five sons and two daughters.