Showing 21207 results

STERKY, FREDERICK ALEXANDER, brother of Charles Francis Stephen Sterky (qv); b.; adm. 24 Apr 1811; KS 1817; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1821, matr. 2 Jun 1821, Westminster Student (still 1829); BA 1825; MA 1828; ordained deacon 1826, priest 1827; Perpetual Curate of St. Osyth, Essex 1831; Vicar of North Otterington with Thornton-le-Street, Yorks., from 4 Oct 1832; m. 1st, 8 Apr 1833 Marian, dau. of Robert Collins, Ipswich, Suffolk; m. 2nd, 1 Jun 1852 Mary Catherine, only dau. of Francis Philip Bedingfield, Thornton-le-Beans, Yorks.; d. 28 Jan 1866, aged 63.

STERKY, CHARLES STEPHEN FRANCIS, eldest son of Rev. Alexander Sterky, Kensington, Middlesex (“a Swiss minister”, Preacher in French Chapel, St. James’s, and French Reader to Princess Charlottte); b. Mar 1800; adm. 12 Feb 1810; left Whitsun 1817; Junior Examiner, Audit Office 23 Jun 1818; in Audit Office to retirement 30 Jun 1868; m. 14 Nov 1844 Mary Anne, dau. of Samuel Bawtree, Whitehall, Colchester, Essex; d. 11 Feb 1872.

STEPNEY, GEORGE, son of George Stepney, Groom of the Chamber to Charles II [sic, but check], and Mary, eldest dau. of Sir Bernard Whetstone, Kt, Woodford, Essex; b. 1663; adm.; KS 1676; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1682, adm. pens. 28 Jun 1682, scholar 9 May 1683, matr. 1682; 4th in “ordo” 1685/6; BA 1685/6; MA 1689; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 6 Jul 1689 – c. 1698; entered on a successful diplomatic career with the aid of his friend and schoolfellow Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (qv); Envoy to Brandenburg 1692, 1693, Vienna 1693, Saxony 1695, German Princes and Congress at Frankfurt 1696-7, Vienna again 1702-5; a Commissioner of Trade from 9 Jun 1699; Envoy to the Hague from 1706; taken ill and returned to England Aug 1707; FRS 30 Nov 1697; contributed to Dryden’s Miscellany Poems, 1684, and to Dryden’s translation of Juvenal, 1693; his poems were reprinted in Chalmers’s English Poets; d. unm. 15 Sep 1707. Buried South Aisle, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

STEPHENSON, W. W.; b.; adm. 1805, third quarter; left Dec 1805. [perhaps William Walter Stephenson, Lieut., 2nd Dragoon Guards 19 Aug 1813 ?]

STEPHENSON, WALTER JAMES, brother of Charles William Stephenson (qv); b. 23 Sep 1861; adm. 27 May 1875 (James'); left Dec 1879; emigrated to South America; returned to England on outbreak of Boer War; served with Lord Loch’s Horse in South Africa and with Army Service Corps in 1914-8 War; d. 9 Feb 1936.

STEPHENSON, SIMON, son of Simon Stephenson, Great Queen Street, Westminster, and Martha, dau. of John Crudge; b.; adm. 14 Jun 1773; left Dec 1774; adm. attorney; practised in Great Queen Street, Westminster; Vestry Clerk, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, for fifty years; m. 11 Feb 1790 Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Edward Glanvill, Westminster; d. 15 Jan 1844, aged 79.

STEPHENSON, ROBERT; b.; adm. (aged 16) Sep 1717.

STEPHENSON, RALPH HARRY, brother of Charles William Stephenson (qv); b. 31 Oct 1867; adm. 16 Jun 1881 (J); left Dec 1883; civil engineer, R. H. Stephenson & Co., Leicester; AMICE 4 Dec 1894; served in 1914-8 War; Lieut. (TF) 5th battn. North Lancs Regt., 13 Feb 1915; Hon. Capt.; d. 27 Jul 1927.

Stephenson, Percy Crawfurd, brother of Charles William Stephenson (q.v.); b. Sept. 5, 1875; adm. April 28, 1889 (H); left Dec. 1891; enlisted in the army June 1916, and was invalided from the 16th Batt. London Regt. Sept. 1917; m. April 25, 1907, Lilian Mabel, daughter of Frederick Henry Rooke, of Barnes; d. Oct. 3, 1962.

Stephenson, Sir Hugh Lansdown, brother of Charles William Stephenson (q.v.); b. April 8, 1871; adm. Sept. 28, 1883 (H); Q.S. 1886; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1890, matric. Oct. 10, 1890; B.A. 1894; I.C.S. (Bengal) 1894; arrived in India Dec. 14, 1895; asst. magis. and coll.; private secretary to Lieut.-Gov. Nov. 1903 - May 1904; magis. and coll. Nov. 1907; junior secretary, Board of Revenue, Oct. 1910, secretary April 1911; chief secretary, Govt. of Bengal, May 1920; member of the Executive Council, Govt. of Bengal March 1922; Governor of Bihar and Orissa 1927-31, and of Burma 1932-7; adviser to the Secretary of State for Burma 1937; C.I.E. June 3, 1913; C.S.I. June 3, 1919; K.C.I.E. Jan. 1, 1924; K.C.S.I. 1927; G.C.l.E. 1936; m. July 29, 1905, Mary Daphne, younger daughter of John Mott Maidlow, of Lincolns Inn, barrister-at-law; d. Sept. 6, 1941.