Harry Lushington Stephen

Sir Harry Lushington Stephen, 3rd Baronet (2 March 1860 – 1 November 1945) was a British barrister and Judge of the Calcutta High Court in British India.[1]

The third son of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Harry Lushington was educated at Rugby School before matriculating at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1878, graduating LLB in 1882 and LLM in 1904. He was called to the Bar in 1885 and practised on the South Wales Circuit from 1886 to 1901. He became a judge of the Calcutta High Court,[2][3] on 18 November 1901.[4] He was knighted in 1913.[5] He retired in 1914.

On his return to England, he was Alderman of the London County Council from 1916 to 1928.[6] He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the Crown of Belgium for services rendered in connection with the First World War. He died in 1945 at Hale Close, Fordingbridge.

In 1904, he married Barbara, youngest daughter of W Shore Nightingale of Embley Romsey and Lea Hurst, Derbyshire. He had one son, James Alexander Stephen, who succeeded to the baronetcy.

Works

He is the author of Law of Support and Subsidence,[2][3] 1890. It was "a useful little monograph".[7][8]

He was the editor of

He was joint editor, with Herbert Stephen, of the fifth edition of Stephen's Digest of the Criminal Law (1894)[12] and the fifth edition of Stephen's Digest of the Law of Evidence (1899).[13]

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 [14]

References

  • John Venn and J A Venn. "Stephen, Harry Lushington". Alumni Cantabrigienses. Cambridge, at the University Press. 1954. Part 2 (1752 to 1900). Volume 6. p 25.
  • Walter E. Houghton. "Stephen, Sir Harry Lushington" in Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. Routledge. 2013. ISBN 9781135795504. Page 1087.
  • The Times. 3 November 1945.
  • "Sir Harry Lushington Stephen, Bart" in "Obituary" (1945) 200 The Law Times 166 (10 November 1945)
  • "Sir Harry Lushington Stephen, Bt" in "Obituary" (1945) 95 The Law Journal 387 (17 November 1945)
  • (1982) 16 Gazette 229 to 231 (The Law Society of Upper Canada)
  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. ^ a b c d e "Stephen, Harry Lushington". Who's Who: Volume 58. A & C Black. 1906. Page 1605. [1]
  3. ^ a b c d e "Stephen, Harry Lushington". Who's Who: Volume 61. A & C Black. 1909. Page 1801. [2]
  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. ^ Sir J A Hammerton. "Stephen Sir James Fitzjames". Concise Universal Biography. 1934. p 1250.
  7. ^ (1890) 6 LQR 342 (July 1890)
  8. ^ For other reviews, see "Law Library" (1890) 89 Law Times 28 (10 May 1890); "Reviews" (1890) 25 Law Journal 324 (31 May 1890); "Law Books", The Athenaeum, No 3282, 20 September 1890, p 382; and "Law Books" (1890) 69 The Saturday Review 776 (21 June 1890).
  9. ^ For reviews of this edition, see "Law Library" (1893) 95 The Law Times 465 (No 2635: 30 September 1893); "Reviews" (1893) 28 The Law Journal 656 (7 October 1893); and "Reviews" (1893) 76 The Saturday Review 520 (4 November 1893).
  10. ^ For a review of this edition, see "Law Library" (1892) 94 The Law Times 154 (No 2594: 17 December 1892)
  11. ^ For reviews of State Trials: Political and Social, see The Bookseller, 4 August 1899, p 679; "Old State Trials" (1899) Literature: An International Gazette of Criticism (New Series), No 30: 4 August 1899, p 89; "General Literature" in "Reviews" (1899) 7 Book Reviews 329 (No 7: September 1899); "Reviews" (1899) 20 The Speaker 72 (22 July 1899); "Old State Trials" (1899) 60 The Literary World 91 (11 August 1899); and "Literary Notes" (1899) 5 Country Life Illustrated 805 (No 130: 1 July 1899). For a review of volumes 3 and 4, see "More State Trials" in "Reviews" (1902) 62 The Academy and Literature 265 (No 1558: 15 March 1902). For a review of the second series, see "The Mysteries of State Trials" in "Reviews" (1902) 93 The Saturday Review 177 (8 February 1902).
  12. ^ Scan
  13. ^ Marke. A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University. 1953. p 531.
  14. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1949.
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