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SIR JAMES STEPHEN (1789-1859)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 883 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR JAMES STEPHEN (1789-1859)  ,
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English historian, was the son of James Stephen, master in
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chancery, author of The
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Slavery of the West India Colonies and other
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works, and was born in
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London on the 3rd of
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January 1789 . He was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1812, after which he studied for the bar and was called at Lincoln's
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Inn . He obtained an extensive practice as a chancery
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barrister, being ultimately counsel to the colonial department and counsel to the board of trade . In 1834 he became assistant under-secretary for the colonies, and shortly afterwards permanent under-secretary . On his retirement in 1847 he was made a knight
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commander of the Bath . In 1849 he was appointed regius professor of
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modern
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history in the university of Cam-
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bridge, having already distinguished himself by his brilliant studies in ecclesiastical biography contributed to the
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Edinburgh Review, which were published that
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year under the title Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography and Other Subjects; a 4th edition, with a short memoir, appeared in 1860 . He was also the author of Lectures on the History of France ( 2 vols., 1851; 3rd ed., 1857), and Desultory and Systematic
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Reading, a lecture (1853) . He died at Coblentz on the 15th of September 1859 .

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