STEPHENS, THOMAS, brother of Michael Pye Stephens (qv); bapt. St. Anne Soho 13 Feb 1753 (IGI); in school lists 1764; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1767; KS 1768; drowned at Richmond, Surrey 13 Aug 1769. Buried South Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

STEPHENS, THOMAS, brother of Philip Stephens (qv); b. 30 Nov 1765 (bapt. as Thomas Stephens King 10 Jan 1766); adm. 13 Jan 1778; KS (aged 14) 1781 (but not adm. until 1782); Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 16 Jul 1785; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 21 May 1788; killed in a duel with an attorney named Anderson at Kingsgate, near Margate, Kent 20 Sep 1790.

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.

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.

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, 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.

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.

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.

STEVENS, CHRISTOPHER; b.; at school in 1567; QS 1569-70 (Chapter Muniments).

Stevens, Guy Harrison, son of Henry George Stevens, of Church Stretton, Salop, solicitor, by Daisy Mary, daughter of Richard Greenwood Harrison, of Meole Brace, Shrewsbury; b. Aug. 23, 1901; adm. as K.S. Sept. 23, 1915; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1920, matric. Michaelmas 1920; B.A. 1923; asst. master, Mowden School, Brighton, 1923-5; Ely Theological Coll.; ordained deacon 1926, priest 1927 (London); M.A. 1927; Curate of All Saints, Clapton Park, 1926, of St. Barnabas, Pimlico, 1928; Chaplain at Maadi, Egypt, 1929; Chaplain and asst. master at Woodbridge School, Suffolk, 1931; Vicar of Tong, Yorks, 1936; of Bussage, Glos, 1957; m. April 18, 1933, Dorothea Irene, daughter of Frank Maisey, of Randfontein, S. Africa; d. Feb. 5, 1960.