William Stebbing (16 May 1831 – 27 May 1926) was a British journalist. He was the son of the Rev. Dr.

Henry Stebbing Henry Stebbing (1687–1763) was an English churchman and controversialist, who became archdeacon of Wilts. Life Baptised at Walton, Suffolk on 19 August 1687, he was the fourth son of John Stebbing (1647–1728), a grocer of Walton, by his wife ...

and one of his brothers was Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing. He was educated at Westminster School,

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...

Lincoln College, Oxford Lincoln College (formally, The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, situated on Turl Street in central Oxford. Lincoln was founded in 1427 by Richard Fleming, the ...

and

Worcester College, Oxford Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in 1714 by the benefaction of Sir Thomas Cookes, 2nd Baronet (1648–1701) of Norgrove, Worcestershire, whose coat of arms w ...

. He gained a First Class degree in Moderations in 1852, a First in '' Literae humaniores'' in 1853 and a First in School of Law and Modern History in 1854.‘Mr. William Stebbing’, ''The Times'' (29 May 1926), p. 14. He was

called to the bar The call to the bar is a legal term of art in most common law jurisdictions where persons must be qualified to be allowed to argue in court on behalf of another party and are then said to have been "called to the bar" or to have received "call to ...

Lincoln's Inn The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn is one of the four Inns of Court in London to which barristers of England and Wales belong and where they are called to the Bar. (The other three are Middle Temple, Inner Temple and Gray's Inn.) Lincoln ...

, where he practised as a conveyancer and equity barrister. He was a leader writer for '' The Times'' under John Thadeus Delane and in 1870 he succeeded George Webbe Dasent as the paper's assistant editor. When Delane retired in 1877, Stebbing edited the paper until Thomas Chenery was appointed in 1878, whereupon Stebbing retired as assistant editor, although he still contributed articles. He also wrote for the '' Saturday'' and the ''

Edinburgh Review The ''Edinburgh Review'' is the title of four distinct intellectual and cultural magazines. The best known, longest-lasting, and most influential of the four was the third, which was published regularly from 1802 to 1929. ''Edinburgh Review'', ...

''. He was a member of the Reform Club and, from 1881, of the Athenaeum. In 1870 he married Anne Pinckard Pidgeon (the daughter of Jonathon Sills Pidgeon) with whom he had three sons and two daughters.

Works

*''Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic'' (1864). *'', a biography'' (1871). *''Some Verdicts of History Reviewed'' (1887). *''Charles Henry Pearson, Fellow of Oriel and Education Minister in Victoria'' (1900). *''The Poets: Geoffrey Chaucer to Alfred Tennyson, 1340–1892: impressions'' (1907). *''Five Centuries of English Verse'' (1910). *''Truths or Truisms'' (1911). *''Greek and Latin Anthology Thought into English Verse'' (1923).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stebbing, William 1831 births 1926 deaths The Times journalists People educated at Westminster School, London Alumni of King's College London Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford British journalists