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STONE, ANDREW, elder son of Andrew Stone, Lombard Street, London, goldsmith, and Anne Holbrooke; b. 4 Feb 1702/3; adm. Feb 1714/5; KS 1717; Capt. of the School 1721; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1722, matr. 6 Jun 1722, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1722 – void 26 Jun 1735; BA 1726; MA 1728 (incorp. Cambridge 1749); Private Secretary to Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (qv), 1732-4; Under-Secretary of State Jul 1734 – Apr 1751; Collector of State Papers May 1739 – Jun 1741, Keeper of State Papers from May 1741; MP Hastings 1741-61; a Commissioner of Trade Nov 1749 – Oct 1761; Sub-Governor to Prince George (the future George III) 1751-6, Secretary to Prince George as Prince of Wales 1756-60; charged before the Privy Council in Feb 1753, with William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (qv), and James Johnson (qv), with having toasted the Pretender, but retained the confidence of the Court; Treasurer to Queen Charlotte from 2 Nov 1761; a valued confidant of the Pelham brothers, and for more than thirty years “no man was more completely behing the scenes of the political stage”; Busby Trustee 13 Apr 1752; m. 7 Jul 1743 Hannah, dau. of Stephen Mauvillain, Tooting and Morden, Surrey; d. 16 Dec 1773. Buried North Aisle, Westminster Abbey.

STEWART, HON. RICHARD, third son of William Stewart, 1st Viscount Mountjoy (I), Master-Gen. of the Ordnance (I), and Hon. Mary Coote, dau. of Richard Coote, 1st Baron Coloony (I) [check]; b.; adm.; KS 1692; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1695, matr. 2 Jul 1695, aged 18, Westminster Student 30 Dec 1695 – void 1709; BA (Christ Church Act Book) 1699; LLD Trinity Coll. Dublin 1714; MP (I) Co. Tyrone 1702-14, Strabane 1715-27, Co. Tyrone from 1727; Capt. of the Battleaxe Guards (I); d. unm. 4 Aug 1728.

Stevens, Geoffrey Paul, brother of Alfred Leslie Welton Stevens (q.v.); b. Nov. 10, 1902; adm. Sept. 21, 1916 (G); left Easter 1921; A.C.A. 1927; F.C.A. 1933; in practice in London; M.P. for Portsmouth (Langstone) since 1950; Pilot Officer (Equipment) R.A.F.V.R. June 14, 1938; Flight-Lieut. March 1, 1941; Sqdn. Ldr. March 1, 1942; Wing-Cmdr. Sept. 1944; m. Sept. 1, 1928, Evelyn Mitchell, daughter of David William Marwick, of Rowledge, Surrey, writer to the Signet; d. 10 May 1981.

STAVELEY-HILL, HENRY STAVELEY, only son of Right Hon. Alexander Staveley-Hill PC DCL MP, Oxley Manor, Staffs., Judge Advocate of the Fleet and Counsel to the Admiralty, and his first wife Katherine Cumpston Florence, eldest dau. of Miles De Haile Ponsonby, Haile Hall, Cumberland; b. 22 May 1865; adm. 26 Sep 1878 (J); left 1882; St. John’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 11 Oct 1884; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 22 Apr 1891; Oxford circuit; Recorder of Banbury 1903-22; MP (Cons) Kingswinford Jul 1905-18; member, Staffordshire County Council 1919-20; County Court Judge, Circuit 28, 1922-8; adjudged bankrupt 18 Sep 1928; DL Staffordshire; served in 1914-18 War; Maj., 2/1st Staffordshire Yeomanry (TF) 23 Sep 1914, Lieut. -Col. commanding 6 Jul 1915-7; on staff, Scottish Command 1918; m. 22 Jun 1901 Eileen de Grey, dau. of Robert de Burgh D’Arcy, Felixstowe, Suffolk; d. 25 Mar 1946.

STANHOPE, PHILIP, natural son of Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield PC, and Elizabeth du Bouchet, The Hague, Netherlands; b.; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1743 (Morel's); left 1746; Grand Tour (Italy) 1746-51 (Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France); MP Liskeard 1754-61, St. Germans 1761 – May 1765; British Resident, Hamburg 1757-63; Envoy to Imperial Diet 1763; Envoy Extraordinary at Dresden from 1764; the recipient of the Letters of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield to his Son; at “Mr Morel’s boarding house in Cowley Street” in Aug 1743 (Letter XCIX); “the boy was encumbered with flesh, and nature had so carelessly compacted his limbs as scarcely to leave them the poer of flexure. In a word, in infancy he was shapeless, and in youth a looby. Never did a she-bear with more anxious assiduity labour to lick her cub into shape than this fond parent did to correct the errors of nature in the formation of this his darling” (Hawkins, Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1787, 181-2); “Mr. Stanhope’s character has been unjustly represented as diametrically opposite to what Lord Chesterfield wished him to be. He has been called dull, gross and awkward : but I knew him at Dresden, when he was Envoy to that Court; and though he could not boast of the graces, he was in truth a sensible, civil, well-behaved man” (Boswell, Life of Johnson, ed. G. B. Hill, 1887, i, 266 note); m. c. 1759 (secretly) Eugenia Peters, natural dau. of Compton Domvile MP (I); d. at Avignon, France 16 Nov 1768.

STANHOPE, JAMES BANKS, son of Lieut. -Col. Hon. James Hamilton Stanhope MP, 1st Foot Guards, and Lady Frederica Louisa Murray, eldest dau. of David William Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield (qv); b. 13 May 1821; adm. 1 Apr 1833 (G); KS 1834; left Dec 1837; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 15 May 1839; of Revesby Abbey, Lincs.; MP (Conservative) North Lincolnshire 1852-68; DL JP Lincolnshire; Busby Trustee 17 May 1881; d. 18 Jan 1904.

SOUTHWELL, EDWARD, 20TH BARON DE CLIFFORD, only son of Edward Southwell (qv); b. 6 Jun 1738; adm. Jan 1747/8 (Lloyd's); in school list 1751; Pembroke Coll. Cambridge, adm. 23 Oct 1754, matr. Mich. 1755; Grand Tour (Italy) 1759-60; MP Bridgewater 1761 – Nov 1763 Gloucestershire 23 Nov 1763 – Apr 1776; took seat House of Lords as 20th Baron de Clifford 24 Apr 1776, abeyance of Barony of De Clifford having been terminated in his favour; of Kings Weston, Gloucs.; m. 29 Aug 1765 Sophia (afterwards Governess to Princess Charlotte of Wales), third dau. of Samuel Campbell, Mount Campbell, co. Leitrim, Ireland; d. at Avignon, France 1 Nov 1777 (M. I. Henbury, Gloucs. ).

SOMERSET, FITZROY JOHN HENRY, 1ST BARON RAGLAN, youngest son of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort (qv); b. 30 Sep 1788; adm. 1 Feb 1802 (Clapham); in school list 1803; Cornet, 4th Light Dragoons 9 Jun 1804; Lieut., 30 May 1805; Capt., 6th Garrison Battn., 5 May 1808; 43rd Foot 18 Aug 1808; Brevet Maj., 9 Jun 1811; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 27 Apr 1812; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 1st Foot Guards 25 Jul 1814; Col. in the Army and ADC to Prince Regent 28 Aug 1815; Major-Gen., 27 May 1825; Col., 53rd Foot 19 Nov 1830 – May 1854 [check]; Lieut. -Gen., 28 Jun 1838; Col., Royal Horse Guards, from 8 May 1854; Gen., 20 Jun 1854; Field-Marshal 5 Nov 1854; served with Wellington in Peninsular War; wounded at battle of Busaco; lost right arm at battle of Waterloo; Secretary to Embassy, Paris 1814, Minister Plenipotentiary there Jan – Mar 1815; Secretary to Master-Gen. of the Ordnance 1815-27; MP Truro 1818-20, 1826 – Mar 1829; Military Secretary, War Office Jan 1827 – Sep 1852; Master-Gen. of the Ordnance 30 Sep 1852 – May 1855; Commander-in-Chief of British Troops in Crimea from 1854; Privy Councillor 16 Oct 1852; created Baron Raglan 20 Oct 1852; KCB 2 Jan 1815; GCB 24 Sep 1852; DCL Oxford 1834; m. 6 Aug 1814 Lady Emily Harriet Wellesley Pole, second dau. of William Wellesley Pole, 3rrd Earl of Mornington PC, Master of the Mint; d. in camp before Sevastopol 28 Jun 1855. DNB.

SKYNNER, SIR JOHN, son of John Skynner, Great Milton, Oxfordshire, and Elizabeth ---; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1734/5; KS 1738; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1742, matr. 19 Jun 1742, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1742 – Dec 1757, Faculty Student 22 Dec 1757 – res 22 Jun 1776; BCL 27 Jan 1750/1; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 21 Nov 1739, called to bar 17 Nov 1748, Bencher 19 Jun 1771; Oxford Circuit; KC Hilary 1771; Attorney-Gen., Duchy of Lancaster Jan 1770 – Nov 1777; MP Woodstock 20 Jan 1771 – Nov 1777; Second Judge, Chester Circuit 3 Apr 1772-7; Recorder of Oxford 12 Apr 1776; knighted 23 Nov 1777; Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer (also Serjeant-at-Law) 27 Nov 1777 until retirement owing to ill-health in Christmas vacation of 1786-7; Privy Councillor 23 Mar 1787; Busby Trustee 17 Apr 1780; m. 6 Mar 1778 Martha, dau. of Edward Burn; d. 26 Nov 1805. DNB.

SKINNER, MATTHEW, third son of Robert Skinner, Welton, Northants, Judge of the Marshalsea Court, and Anne, eldest dau. of William Buckby, Chief Justice of Carmarthen, Serjeant-at-Law and Recorder of Daventry; b. 22 Oct 1689; adm.; QS 1704; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1709, matr. 18 Jun 1709, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1709 – void 1720; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 20 Jun 1709, called to bar 21 Apr 1716; Oxford Circuit; one of the four Common Pleaders, City of London 1719-22; Recorder of Oxford from 30 May 1721; Serjeant-at-Law 1 Feb 1724; one of King’s Serjeants 11 Jun 1728; King’s Prime Serjeant 12 May 1734; MP Oxford 1734 – Nov 1738; Chief Justice of Chester from 26 Nov 1738; m. 8 Sep 1719 Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Whitfield, Watford Place, Herts.; d. 21 Oct 1749. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. DNB.