Harold Wilberforce Hindmarsh Stephen (1841 – 30 November 1889) was an Australian politician. He was born at

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to land speculator

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, who would later act as

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, and Mary Hindmarsh, daughter of Rear Admiral Sir

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, South Australia's first governor. He was educated in

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and in

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. A journalist, he edited two short-lived publications of his own, the ''Athenaeum'' and the ''Critic'', and was briefly editor of the ''

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''. His family was highly influential in

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: Sir Alfred Stephen was his uncle and Sir Henry Stephen,

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and Septimus Stephen were all cousins. In 1885 Harold Stephen was elected to the

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for Monaro. Defeated in 1887, he returned in 1889 but died nine months later in Newtown.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stephen, Harold 1841 births 1889 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Protectionist Party politicians 19th-century Australian politicians