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.
STEPHENSON, GERALD, brother of Charles William Stephenson (qv); b. 13 Apr 1863; adm. 15 Jun 1876 (J); QS Jan 1879; left May 1881; adm. solicitor Dec 1887; practised in Cannon Street, London; d. 27 May 1897.
STEPHENSON, ERNEST AUGUSTUS EDMUND HENRY, son of John Stephenson, and Jane --- (IGI); b. 15 Jun 1802; adm. 18 Feb 1815 (Best's); left Christmas 1817; m. 1 Feb 1834 Frederica Emma, third dau. of David Bevan, Belmont, Herts.; d. 13 Mar 1855.