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.
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, 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, 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.
STEPHENSON, CHARLES WILLIAM, son of Charles Stephenson, St. George’s Square, London, land surveyor, and Mary Anne Lansdown; b. 27 Feb 1853; adm. 22 Jan 1864 (James'); QS 1868; left May 1871; practised as a surveyor in Parliament Street, Westminster; m. (by 1881) Charlotte H. ---; d. 22 Apr 1924.
Stephenson, Alan Fraser, son of John Lewis Irwin Stephenson, schoolmaster, of Bray, Co. Wicklow, and Mabel, d. of Rev. James Frazer of Belfast; b. 3 Sept. 1913; adm. Sept. 1927 (KS); left July 1932; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1932, BA 1936, MA 1965; RA 1939-46 (Maj.), despatches (NW Europe) Apr. 1946; buyer for Harrods 1946-54; man. dir. Henshaws Ltd Dublin 1955; marketing man. Gouldings Fertilisers Ltd 1961-3; dir. J. S. Leeson & Co. 1964-74; retd to Co. Wicklow 1974; m. 8 June 1949 Moira Edith, d. of Arthur Crawford, co. man. director, of Kingstown, Co. Dublin; d. 1995.
STEPHENS, THOMAS, son of James Stephens, Falmouth, Cornwall; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1714; KS 1715; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1719, adm. pens. 28 May 1719, scholar 1720, matr. 1719; BA 1722/3; MA 1726.