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STONEHEWER, RICHARD, son of Richard Stonehewer, Durham; b.; adm.; QS 1707; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1711, adm. pens. 31 May 1711, aged 18, scholar 15 May 1712, matr. 1711; BA 1714/5; MA 1718; LLD 1728; ordained; Rector of Washington, co. Durham 1719-22; Rector of Houghton-le-Spring, co. Durham, from 4 Jun 1727; m. 1st, 13 Aug 1719 Ann Hendry; m. 2nd, 16 May 1723 Margery, dau. of John Hall, Durham; d. 29 Oct 1769.

STONE, THOMAS ARTHUR, second but eldest surviving son of Arthur Daniel Stone MD FRCP, London, medical practitioner, and Biddy Maria, dau. of John Clarke, London, surgeon; b. 3 Mar 1797; adm. Sep 1805; left Bartholomewtide 1807; at Charterhouse Sch. 1810-3; MRCS 1817; hon. FRCP 1843; practised in London; m. 26 Dec 1822 Frances Maria, eldest dau. of Rev. Robert Gream, Richmond, Surrey; d. 20 Aug 1864.

STONE, John; b. ; adm. (aged 12) May 1736 (Heath's); left 1741; apprenticed July 11, 1741, to John Cartwright, of Westminster, attorney.

STONE, JOHN, of London; b.; adm.; KS in 1644; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1647, adm. pens. 5 Jul 1647, scholar 1648; BA 1650/1.

STONE, JOHN, youngest son of Nicholas Stone, London, sculptor and master mason, and Mary, dau. of Hendrik de Keyser, architect and master mason, Amsterdam, Netherlands; b.; at school under Busby (Vertue, Notebooks, i, 93); “brought up at Oxford design’d for a clergyman” (ibid., 89), and therefore perhaps the John Stone who was Bible Clerk and Librarian, University Coll. Oxford 1644-8, when expelled by Parliamentary Visitors; subsequently a fugitive from Parliament, escaping to France; his father’s business as a sculptor and mason devolved on him after his brother Henry’s death in 1653, although he seems not to have been a sculptor himself; as an architect he designed Chesterton House, Warwickshire, in the late 1650s; went to Breda, Netherlands, at the Restoration to petition Charles II to appoint him to his father’s office of Master Mason to the Crown, but was appointed to the post of Master Mason at Windsor only; suffered incapacitating stroke when at Breda, and never fully recovered; became an inmate of St. Cross Hospital, Winchester; author, Enchiridion of Fortification, 1645 (published anonymously); buried St. Martin’s in the Fields, London 11 Sep 1667.

Stone, Sir John Richard Nicholas, son of Sir Gilbert Stone, Chief Justice of Nagpur, and Elsie Lawton, d. of Walter Scott of Hull; b. 30 Aug. 1913; adm. Sept. 1926 (A); left Dec. 1930; Caius Coll. Camb., matric. 1931, BA 1935 (1st class hons Law Trip. Pt 1 1933, Economics Trip. Pt 2 1935); C. E. Heath & Co., Lloyd's brokers, 1936-9; Min. of Economic Warfare 1939-40, Cen­tral Statistical Office of War Cabinet 1940-5, personal assistant to Lord Keynes; Fellow of King's 1945-; CBE 1946; Dir. Dept of Applied Economics Univ. of Cambridge 1945-55, P. D. Leake Prof. of Finance and Accounting 1955-80; FBA 1956; ScD (Cantab.) 1957; hon. doctor­ates at many European Univs; Kt 1978; Nobel Prize for Economics 1984; author of a large number of works on Economics and allied subjects; m. 1st 1936 Winifred Mary, d. of Hammond Jenkins; 2nd 1941 Feodora Leontinoff; 3rd 1960 Mrs Giovanna Croft-Murray, d. of Count Aurelio Saffi; d. 12 Dec. 1991.

Stone, Herbert William Degetan, brother of Waldemar Ernest Smith (q.v.); b. May 26, 1879; adm. Sept. 22, 1892 (H); exhibitioner 1893; Q.S. (non-resident) 1894; left July 1896; a clerk in the London and Westminster Bank, and in 1898 entered a marine insurance business in Shanghai; returned to London in Aug. 1913; enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers (U. and P.S. Batt.) Dec. 10, 1914; 2nd Lieut. 4th Batt. (Extra Reserve) Connaught Rangers May 26, 1915; went out to the western front in Dec. 1915, and was attached to the Royal Irish Rifles; assumed the surname of Stone in lieu of Schmidt May 5, 1915; killed in action at Mont St. Eloi April 26, 1916.

Stone, Graham Coutts Tempest, son of Lieut.-Col. Lionel George Tempest Stone CMG CBE, Roy. Fusiliers, and Alice Campbell, d. of James Walker, architect, of Edinburgh; b. 14 June 1910; adm. Sept. 1923 (H); left Mar. 1926; Roy. Fusiliers in WW2 (Capt.), wounded (Sicily); Esso Petroleum Co., retd 1974; m. 11 July 1936 Barbara, d. of Victor Rees Aronson CBE KC; d. 8 June 1989.

STONE, GEORGE, younger brother of Andrew Stone (qv); b. 7 Jan 1707/8; adm. apr 1720; KS 1721; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1725, matr. 2 Jun 1725, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1725 – void 14 Oct 1734 (expiry year of grace as Dean of Ferns), Tutor 1730; BA 1729; MA 1732; DD 1740; ordained; Chaplain to Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset (qv), when Lord Lieut. Ireland; Dean of Ferns and Leighlin 22 Aug 1733 – Apr 1734; Dean of Derry 3 Apr 1734 – Aug 1740; consecrated Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin 3 Aug 1740; translated to Kildare 19 Mar 1743; Dean of Christ Church, Dublin 15 Jun 1743 – May 1745; translated to bishopric of Derry 11 May 1745; Archbishop of Armagh from 13 Mar 1747; Privy Councillor (I) 10 Apr 1747; Vice-Chancellor, Dublin Univ., from 1752; the political rival of Henry Boyle, 1st Earl of Shannon (I) (qv); served many times as one of the Lord Justices of Ireland, and for some years virtually dictator of the country; d. unm. 19 Dec 1764. Buried North Aisle, Westminster Abbey. DNB.