Stephen Cassan (1758–1794) was an Irish barrister in

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, where he was one of the founders of the ''

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''. He was High Sheriff of Calcutta in 1785.

Life

He was the youngest son of Stephen Cassan (1725–1773) of Sheffield House,

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. He went to

Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

in 1773, joined the

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in 1778, and was

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in 1781. Cassan founded the ''Bengal Journal'', a weekly newspaper, in 1785, with Thomas Jones. In 1789 he owned two-thirds of the ''Bengal Journal'', with James Dunkin. They brought in William Duane to improve the publication, and the circulation more than doubled in 1790. William Hickey states that Cassan after marrying went to Bombay to practise in the Mayor's Court, but died spitting blood. He is also said to have died in Bengal, intestate, on 26 January 1794.

Family

Cassan married Sarah Mears, and was father of

Stephen Hyde Cassan Stephen Hyde Cassan (1789–1841) was an English Anglican priest and ecclesiastical biographer. Life The son of Stephen Cassan, a barrister, and his wife Sarah, daughter of Charles Mears, he was born in Calcutta, where his father was sheriff. J ...

. Sarah Cassan was the daughter of Captain Charles Mears, of Coleraine and the ''Egmont'' East Indiaman, son of the minister

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. She published a book of poems in 1806.www.oac.cdlib.org, ''Poems by Mrs. Cassan''
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