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

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MSS . 28875-28947),
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purchased from the earl of Macclesfield in 1872, and others are available in the record office . He contributed a version of the eighth satire of Juvenal to the
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translation (1693) of the satires " by Mr Dryden and several other eminent hands." Dr 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 Chalmers's English Poets, vol. viii., and other collections of the kind . Some of his correspondence is printed by J . M . Kemble in State Papers and Correspondence . from the Revolution to the Accession of the House of Hanover (1857) . A list of the Macclesfield letters is to be found in the Report of the Hist . MSS . Commission, No. i., app. pp . 34-40 . For an account of Stepney's
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family and circumstances, see R . Harrison, Some Notices of the Stepney Family (187o), pp .

22-28 .

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