STEELE, THOMAS, son of Thomas Steele, Chichester, Sussex, Recorder of Chichester, and Elizabeth Madgwick, Cuckfield, Sussex; bapt. 17 Nov 1753; in school list 1764; KS (Capt. ) 1766; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1771, adm. pens. 29 May 1771, scholar 15 May 1772, matr. 1772; adm. Middle Temple 18 Jan 1772; MP Chichester 1780-1807; Secretary to Master-Gen. of Ordnance 1782; Joint Secretary to Treasury 27 Dec 1783-91; Joint Paymaster-Gen. of the Forces 7 Mar 1791 – Jul 1804; Privy Councillor 9 Mar 1791; Commissioner, Board of Control 16 May 1791 – Jun 1793; Receiver-Gen. , Alienation Office 1793-7; King’s Remembrancer, Court of Exchequer from 7 Nov 1797; the discovery in 1807 that he had not accounted for two large sums of money withdrawn by him from the Pay Office brought about his withdrawal from public life; m. 3 Sep 1785 Charlotte Amelia, sister of William Lindsay (qv); d. 8 Dec 1823.

STEDMAN, JOHN, only son of John Stedman, Chester [presumably adm. 1800, qv]; b. 20 Jul 1817; adm. 18 Jan 1831 (Stikeman's); KS 1831; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1835, adm. pens. 27 Jun 1835, scholar 1836; adm, . Lincoln’s Inn 10 Jun 1835, called to bar 15 Jun 1840; equity draftsman and conveyancer; signed Play Protest 1847 as “John Stedman, jun. ”; d. 4 May 1872.

STEDMAN, EDWARD; b. ; adm. ; KS 1683. [Note that Edward Stedman was a barrister, Inner Temple, in 1728].

STEBBING, WILLIAM, brother of John Stebbing (qv); b. 16 May 1832; adm. 25 Jan 1844 (Scott's); QS 1845; left 1846; went to King’s Coll. Sch.; Lincoln Coll. Oxford, matr. 18 Mar 1850, scholar 1850-2; migr. to Worcester Coll., scholar 1852-6; 1st cl. Classics (Mods) 1852, 1st cl. Lit. Hum. 1853, 1st cl. Law and Modern History 1854; BA 1854; MA 1856; Fellow, Worcester Coll. 1856-70, subsewquently Hon. Fellow; Hon. Fellow, King’s Coll. London 1853; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 15 Jan 1856, called to bar 17 Nov 1858; equity draftsman and conveyancer; for nearly thirty years on staff of Times newspaper as leader writer and assistant editor; contributor to Saturday Review, Edinburgh Review; author, Some Verdicts of History Reviewed, 1887, and other works; left the sum of £150 to the School to provide a prize for English prose or verse; m. 1 Oct 1870 Anne Pinckard, third dau. of John Sills Pidgeon, Warley Elms, Essex; d. 16 May 1926.

STEAD, HENRY, son of Henry Stead, London; b.; adm.; KS 1672; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1675, matr. 18 Jun 1675, aged 18, Westminster Student 29 Dec 1675 – void 1690; BA 1679; MA 1682; ordained deacon 24 Sep 1682, priest 24 Dec 1682 (both Oxford).

STAVERTON, PERCIVAL; b.; adm.; QS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1577, Westminster Student (still 1578).

Starforth, Michael John, son of William Percy Starforth MB, of Upper Norwood, and Astraea, d. of Roger Hall of Sydenham; b. 27 Oct. 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (KS); left July 1935; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1935, BA 1947, MA 1963; RA in WW2 (Capt.); called to the Bar (Gray's Inn) June 1947; Colonial Legal Service; Crown Counsel Uganda 1951, Solicitor-General and Perm. Sec. Min. of Justice 1962-4; CBE 1963; Parly Counsel Malavsia 1965-8; adviser on legislative drafting Nigeria 1969-71; legal adviser Price Commission 1973-6; asst solicitor DTI 1976-81; retd 1981; d. 6 Feb. 2001.

STAPYLTON, CHRISTOPHER, brother of Sir Miles Stapylton, Bart. (qv); bapt. Myton, Yorks. 10 Jun 1727 (IGI); adm. (aged 13) Jun 1740 (Bourne's); KS 1741; d. at school, and buried Merton, Surrey 24 May 1743.

STAPLEY, ERNEST GORE, son of Rev. Frederick Anthony Stapley, Vicar of Midhurst, Sussex, and Mary Charlotte, only dau. of Frederick Robert Gore, Devonshire Terrace, Hyde Park, London; b. 21 Mar 1856; adm. 30 Sep 1867 (James'); QS 1870; d. 11 Sep 1870.

Stapleton, Bryan, brother of Thomas Stapleton (q.v.); b. Aug. 20, 1871; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 25, 1884; left July 1889; King's Coll. London; Assoc. M.Inst.C.E. Feb. 1, 1898; M.Inst.C.E. Jan. 11, 1910; Fellow, Coopers Hill Coll., 1893; asst. engineer, Indian State Railways Oct. 1, 1893; exec. engineer Oct. 1904; chief engineer, Burma Railways; m. 1st July 17, 1912, Geraldine Emma, daughter of Col. John Henry Crowdy, R.E.; 2nd Nov. 15, 1918, Ruth Jane, youngest daughter of R. T. Friel, of Waterford; d. March 26, 1941.