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GEORGE STEPNEY (1663-1707)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 889 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:STEPNEY (1663-1707)  , See also:English poet and diplomatist, son of See also:George See also:Stepney, See also:groom of the chamber to See also:Charles II., was See also:born at See also:Westminster in 1663 . He was admitted on the See also:foundation of Westminster School in 1676, and in 1682 became a See also:scholar of Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, becoming a See also:fellow of his college in 1687 . Through his friend Charles See also:Montagu, after-wards See also:earl of See also:Halifax, he entered the See also:diplomatic service, and in 1692 was sent as See also:envoy to See also:Brandenburg . He represented See also:William III. at various other See also:German courts, and in 1702 was sent to See also:Vienna, where he had already acted as envoy in 1693 . In 1705 See also:Prince See also:Eugene desired his withdrawal on the ground of his alleged partiality to the Hungarian insurgents, but the demand was taken back at the See also:request of See also:Marlborough, who had See also:great confidence in Stepney . He was, nevertheless, removed ~n 1706 to the See also:Hague . In the next See also:year he returned to See also:England in the See also:hope of recovering from a severe illness, but died in See also:Chelsea, See also:London, on the 15th of See also:September 1707, and was buried in Westminster See also:Abbey . Stepney had a very full and accurate knowledge of German affairs, and was an excellent See also:letter-writer . Among his correspondents was See also:Baron See also:Leibnitz, with whom he was on the friendliest terms . Much of his See also:official and other See also:correspondence is preserved in the letters and papers of See also:Sir See also:John See also:Ellis (Brit . 14Ius . Add .

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MSS . 28875-28947), See also:purchased from the earl of See also:Macclesfield in 1872, and others are available in the See also:record See also:office . He contributed a version of the eighth See also:satire of See also:Juvenal to the See also:translation (1693) of the satires " by Mr See also:Dryden and several other eminent hands." Dr See also:Johnson, who included him in his Lives of the Poets, called him a " very licentious translator," and remarked that he did not " recompense his neglect of the author by beauties of his own." His poems appear in See also:Chalmers's English Poets, vol. viii., and other collections of the See also:kind . Some of his correspondence is printed by J . M . See also:Kemble in See also:State Papers and Correspondence . from the Revolution to the See also:Accession of the See also:House of See also:Hanover (1857) . A See also:list of the Macclesfield letters is to be found in the See also:Report of the Hist . MSS . See also:Commission, No. i., app. pp . 34-40 . For an See also:account of Stepney's See also:family and circumstances, see R . See also:Harrison, Some Notices of the Stepney Family (187o), pp .

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