Harry Lushington Stephen

Sir Harry Lushington Stephen, 3rd Baronet (1860–1945), son of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen,[1] was born on 2 March 1860. He was educated at Rugby and graduated LLM from Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1904, he married Barbara, youngest daughter of W Shore Nightingale of Embley Romsey and Lea Hurst, Derbyshire. He had one son. He was a member of the following clubs: Athenaeum, Oxford and Cambridge, Savile, Bengal. He was called to the Bar in 1885, and practised on the South Wales Circuit from 1886 to 1901. He became Judge of the High Court, Calcutta,[2][3] on 18 November 1901.[4] He was knighted in 1913.[5]

He is the author of Law of Support and Subsidence,[2][3] 1890. It was "a useful little monograph".[6][7] He was the editor of the fourteenth edition of Oke's Synopsis, the eighth edition of Oke's Formulist and State Trials: Political and Social,1899.[2][3]

Coat of arms of Harry Lushington Stephen
Crest
An eagle displayed with two heads Sable resting the dexter claw on an increscent and the sinister on a decrescent both Or.
Escutcheon
Argent on a chevron between two crescents in chief and a sinister hand couped at the wrist in base Gules an escallop between two mullets of the first.
Motto
Sursum [8]

References
  • Walter E. Houghton. "Stephen, Sir Harry Lushington" in Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. Routledge. 2013. ISBN 9781135795504. Page 1087.
  1. "Stephen, Sir Harry Lushington', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Oct 2012 accessed 17 Jan 2014
  2. "Stephen, Harry Lushington". Who's Who: Volume 58. A & C Black. 1906. Page 1605.
  3. "Stephen, Harry Lushington". Who's Who: Volume 61. A & C Black. 1909. Page 1801.
  4. The India List and India Office List 1905. India Office. p 620.
  5. C Hayavadano Rao. "Stephen, Sir Harry Lushington" in The Indian Biographical Dictionary. 1915. p 414.
  6. (1890) 6 LQR 342
  7. For other reviews, see (1890) 89 Law Times 28 , (1890) 25 Law Journal 324
  8. Burke's Peerage. 1949.
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