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Stephen (surname)
Stephen is a surname of English, Scottish, and German origin. It is a reasonably common surname. The German variant is thought to have originated from the German-speaking world as (Von) ''Stephan''. Stephen is the 3,845th most common surname in the USA. MacStèaphain (Scottish Gaelic) Stephen is a sept of the clan MacTavish. It is believed that Stephens from North East Scotland (Morayshire, Banffshire, and Aberdeenshire) south of the Moray Firth are descended from a Viking named Tarben whose longship landed in Banffshire in the late 10th century CE. His name was Christianized to Stephen. Notable people with the surname * Stephen (Australian legal family), a prominent legal dynasty, includes :* Sir Alfred Stephen (1802–1894), Chief Justice of New South Wales :* Sir Colin Stephen (1872–1937), lawyer and horse racing administrator :* George Milner Stephen (1812–1894), Australian politician and faith healer :* Harold Stephen MLA (1841–1889), Australian politician :* ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
English People
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language in England, English language, a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture. The English identity began with the History of Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxons, when they were known as the , meaning "Angle kin" or "English people". Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles (tribe), Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who invaded Great Britain, Britain around the 5th century AD. The English largely descend from two main historical population groups: the West Germanic tribes, including the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes who settled in England and Wales, Southern Britain following the withdrawal of the Ancient Rome, Romans, and the Romano-British culture, partially Romanised Celtic Britons who already lived there.Martiniano, R., Caffell, A., Holst, M. et al. "Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
10th Century CE
The 10th century was the period from 901 (represented by the Roman numerals CMI) through AD 1000, 1000 (M) in accordance with the Julian calendar, and the last century of the 1st millennium. In China, the Song dynasty was established, with most of China reuniting after the fall of the Tang dynasty and the following Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. The Muslim World experienced a Islamic Golden Age, cultural zenith, especially in al-Andalus under the Caliphate of Córdoba and in the Samanid Empire under Ismail Samani. The Abbasid Caliphate continued to exist but with reduced central authority. Additionally, there was a cultural flourishing for the Byzantine Empire, which also reconquered some lost territories, and the First Bulgarian Empire, as well as the Holy Roman Empire during the Ottonian Renaissance. The historian Lynn Townsend White, Jr, Lynn White mentions of the period that "to the modern eye, it is very nearly the darkest of the Dark Ages (historiography), Dark Ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen
George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen, (5 June 1829 – 29 November 1921), known as Sir George Stephen, Bt, between 1886 and 1891, was a Canadian businessman. Originally from Scotland, he made his fame in Montreal and was the first Canadian to be elevated to the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He was the financial genius behind the creation of the Canadian Pacific Railway. He was President of the Bank of Montreal and is remembered as one of the greatest philanthropists of his time: he built a new wing at the Montreal General Hospital, donated generously to various hospitals in Scotland and gave over £1.3 million to the Prince of Wales Hospital Fund in London, working closely with George V. He and his first cousin, Lord Strathcona, purchased the land and then each gave $1 million to the City of Montreal to construct and maintain the Royal Victoria Hospital. His home in Montreal's Golden Square Mile later became the Mount Stephen Club. In 1888, he retired to England, living ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Elizabeth Willisson Stephen
Elizabeth Willisson Stephen (March 21, 1856 – December 19, 1925) was an American author. Since 1878, she contributed prose and poetry to the northern and southern press. Her poem, "Mine", published in the ''Gulf Citizen'', was characterized as classic in its treatment. With her mother, she was the co-author of ''The Confessions of Two'', a novel. Early life Elizabeth Octavia Willisson was born in Marengo County, Alabama, near Mobile, Alabama, March 21, 1856. Her parents were Edward Fisher Willisson (1819–1858) and Marianne Gendron Gaillard Spratley (1834–1912). Her paternal ancestry was English, and some of them were noted figures of the American Revolutionary War period. Her mother's family was of Huguenot descent, and the name of Marion was conspicuous on their family tree. Thomas Gaillard, her maternal grandfather, ranked high as an ecclesiastical historian. Her grandmother, Mrs. Willisson, was an intellectual woman, who fostered the little girl's love for books and cult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Caroline Emelia Stephen
Caroline Emelia Stephen (8 December 1834 – 7 April 1909), also known as Milly Stephen, was a British philanthropist and a writer on Quakerism. Her niece was Virginia Woolf. Life Stephen was born on 8 December 1834 at Kensington Gore on Hyde Park Gate in London. She was the daughter of the abolitionist Sir James and Jane Catherine (born Venn) Stephen. Her father was the permanent under-secretary for the colonies. Her brothers were the jurist Sir James Fitzjames Stephen and Sir Leslie Stephen (1832–1904) who was the first editor of the ''Dictionary of National Biography''.A.G.L. Shaw, "Stephen, Sir James (1789–1859)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 200accessed 10 December 2015/ref> She was educated by governesses in a literary and religious home. Her home moved from London to Brighton and back to Windsor and then Wimbledon. Her father retired from government work when she was a teenager and she moved again when he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Septimus Alfred Stephen
Septimus Alfred Stephen (8 May 1842 – 28 August 1901), generally referred to as S. A. Stephen, was an Australian politician, solicitor and founding member of the law firm Stephen, Jaques and Stephen. The Stephen family is a prominent legal dynasty in Australia. He was born in Sydney, the seventh son of Sir Alfred Stephen (1802–1894), who would later become Chief Justice of NSW and Lieutenant-Governor of NSW, and his second wife Eleanor Martha . He was educated at Rev. W. H. Savigny's school and in 1858 became a solicitor's clerk, serving his articles with his brother Montagu Consett Stephen. He qualified as a solicitor in 1864 and went into partnership with his brother as Stephen and Stephen, later to become Stephen, Jaques and Stephen. In 1882 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Montagu Stephen
Montagu Consett Stephen (28 April 1827 – 19 May 1872) was an Australian politician. The Stephen family is a prominent legal dynasty in Australia. Montagu was born in Hobart, the son of Virginia and Alfred Stephen, who would later become Lieutenant-Governor of NSW and Chief Justice of NSW,. In 1843 he travelled to Tonbridge in England to complete his education, returning to Van Diemen's Land in 1844 and becoming a solicitor's clerk. Admitted as a solicitor in 1849, he practised alone and in partnership until 1864. On 25 May 1853 he married Emily Clara Jennings Smith. Having moved to New South Wales, he worked as solicitor to the Australian Mutual Provident Society and was a Woollahra alderman and mayor. He also held a number of pastoral runs in partnership in Queensland. In 1869 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Canterbury Canterbury (, ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the county of Kent, En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
James Wilberforce Stephen
Hon. James Wilberforce "Wilber" Stephen, M.A., (10 April 1822 – 14 August 1881) was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Attorney-General of Victoria and Supreme Court judge. The Stephen family was a prominent legal dynasty in Australia. His father, Sir George Stephen, was the nephew of John Stephen and cousin of Sir Alfred Stephen, both judges of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Wilber Stephen was born in London and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated Fourth Wrangler in 1846 and subsequently became M.A. and Fellow. He was called to the Bar in 1848. Stephen emigrated to Victoria in 1854. There he practised his profession and took a part in politics, being returned to the Legislative Assembly for St. Kilda in October 1870. He aided in the defeat of the Charles Gavan Duffy Ministry and, on the accession to power of James Francis in June 1872, accepted office in the new Ministry as Attorney-General. On behalf of the Cabinet, Steph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Matthew Henry Stephen
Sir Matthew Henry Stephen (5 December 1828 – 1 April 1920) was a politician and Puisne Judge in New South Wales. The Stephen family is a prominent legal dynasty in Australia. Stephen was the eldest son of the Hon. Sir Alfred Stephen (1802–1894), who would later become Chief Justice of NSW and Lieutenant-Governor of NSW, and was born at Hobart, Van Diemen's Land (later named Tasmania). He was called to the New South Wales Bar in 1850, and was appointed a Queen's Counsel (QC) in 1879. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Mudgee from December 1869 to December 1871, defeating Samuel Terry who had been a member for that an electoral district from 1859–1869. Stephen was a Supreme Court Judge from 1887. He married on 30 September 1854, Caroline Sibella, daughter of Henry Tudor Shadforth, formerly of the 57th Regiment, and Usher of the Black Rod, New South Wales. Sir Henry was Chancellor of the Church of England diocese of Sydney. Stephen was seni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Harold Stephen
Harold Wilberforce Hindmarsh Stephen (1841 – 30 November 1889) was an Australian politician. He was born at Penzance in Cornwall to land speculator George Milner Stephen, who would later act as Governor of South Australia, and Mary Hindmarsh, daughter of Rear Admiral Sir John Hindmarsh, South Australia's first governor. He was educated in Melbourne and in Germany. A journalist, he edited two short-lived publications of his own, the ''Athenaeum'' and the ''Critic'', and was briefly editor of the ''Sydney Punch''. His family was highly influential in New South Wales: Alfred Stephen, Sir Alfred Stephen was his uncle and Matthew Henry Stephen, Sir Henry Stephen, Montagu Stephen and Septimus Stephen were all cousins. In 1885 Harold Stephen was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Electoral district of Monaro, Monaro. Defeated in 1887, he returned in 1889 but died nine months later in Newtown, New South Wales, Newtown. References {{DEFAULTSORT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
George Milner Stephen
George Milner Stephen (18 December 1812 – 16 January 1894), often written G. Milner Stephen, was a South Australian and Victoria, Australia, Victorian politician and faith healing, faith healer. Early life Stephen born in Wells, Somerset, England, the sixth son of John Stephen (New South Wales judge), John Stephen, later judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, and his wife Mary Anne, ''née'' Pasmore. G. M. Stephen was the younger brother of Sir Alfred Stephen. Stephen was educated at Honiton Grammar School, topping every class. Stephen moved to Sydney with his father, arriving in the ''Prince Regent'' in July 1824. Stephen won the silver medal for classics at Sydney Grammar School within his first year. Career Stephen was a man of unusual ability, a good administrator and a capable lawyer, interested in science, art and music, all of which he had studied. In 1831 Stephen was appointed clerk of the Supreme court, Supreme Court at Hobart, went to South Australia in 183 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Colin Stephen
Sir Colin Campbell Stephen (3 May 1872 – 14 September 1937) was an Australian lawyer remembered as the longtime chairman of the Australian Jockey Club (AJC). History He was a member of the well-known Stephen family, a son of Septimus Alfred Stephen, MLC. He was educated at All Saints' College, Bathurst and, after a course of private tuition in England, was admitted as a solicitor in 1896, and was accepted as a partner in the firm of Stephen, Jaques and Stephen. He was elected a member of the AJC in 1892, and the committee in 1912, serving on the Sir Adrian Knox sub-committee which framed the rules of racing of that year. In 1933 he was tasked with formulating a set of revised rules of racing to be adopted throughout Australia. He was appointed chairman of the AJC on 24 October 1939, succeeding Adrian Knox, who resigned following his appointment as Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, succeeding Samuel Griffith. Stephen was a successful rider and owner; his racing c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
