Henry John Stephen

Stephen's works were:^[1]

• A Treatise on the Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions: comprising a Summary of the whole Proceedings in a Suit of Law, 1824, 1827, 1834, 1838, 1843, 1860 (by J. Stephen and F. F. Pender); and 1866 (by F. F. Pender); eight American editions from 1824 to 1859. Considered lucid by Albert Venn Dicey.
• Summary of the Criminal Law, 1834; translated as Handbuch des englischen Strafrechts, by E. Mühry, 1843.
• New Commentaries on the Laws of England (based on William Blackstone's commentaries), 1841–5, 4 vols.; later editions, edited by his son, James Stephen, and his grandson, H. St. James Stephen; the tenth appeared in 1895. The book was reprinted in America in 1843–1846.

Stephen in 1814 married his cousin, Mary Nuccoll Morrison. After his stepmother's death, from 1815 till 1832, he kept house for his father in Kensington Gore.^[1]

Stephen's wife and a daughter died before him; he left two children:^[1]

• Sarah Wilberforce Stephen, born 28 June 1816, was author of a religious story Anna; or the Daughter at Home, which went through several editions, and was one of the founders of the Metropolitan Association for befriending Young Servants. She died, aged 79, on 5 January 1895, Hastings.
• James, born 16 September 1820, was recorder of Poole, professor of law at King's College, London, and then judge of the county court at Lincoln. He edited later editions of the Commentaries and their Questions for Law Students. He died 25 November 1894.

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). "Stephen, Henry John". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 54. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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