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 * ✅Lady Stanhope
 * Charles Stanhope
 * ✅Charles Stanhope
 * ✅Charles Stanhope
 * ✅Charles Stanhope
 * Sir Edward Stanhope
 * ✅Edward Stanhope
 * ✅George Stanhope
 * ✅Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope
 * ✅James Stanhope James Stanhope, first Earl Stanhope (1673–1721), grandson of Philip Stanhope, first carl of Chesterfield; educated at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford: volunteer in Flanders, 1694-5; received commission in 1st footgnards: colonel, 1702; M.P., Newport, 1701, Cockermouth, 1702-13; Spanish Becretary to Ormonde nt (:ul:. 1702; served under Marllxrongh, 1703, and in Portugal, 1703-4, and became brigadier; gave valuable assistance to Peterborough at Barcelona, 1705; British minister In Spain, 1700; urged -on Archduke Charles aggressive measures; unjustly blamed by Peterborough for the reverse at Almanza, 1707; appointed commander of British forces in Spain, 1708; took Port Mahon. 1708; received overtures from Orleans; as manager of Sacheverell's impeachment made able speech, 1710; won cavalry action at Almenara and victory for allies at Saragossa, 1710; surprised by VendOme and obliged to capitulate at Brihuega; detained prisoner nearly two years; declined Bolingbroke's offer to present him to Louis XIV; a leader of whig opposition; M.P., Wendover, 1713, Newport, 1715; took leading part in securing Hanoverian succession: secretary of state for southern department and privy councillor, 1714; carried impeachment of Ormonde; had chief direction of measures for suppression of Jacobite rising, 1715; active in passing of Septennial Act, but especially in foreign affairs; while with George I at Hanover arranged with Dubois alliance with France and the Dutch, 1716; unjustly charged with treachery to colleagues by Townshend and Wai pole; head of the treasury and chancellor of the exchequer, 1717; returned to secretaryship, 1718; created Viscount Stanhope of Mabon, 1717, Earl Stanhope, 1718: negotiated quadruple alliance against Spain, and compelled her to accede to it, 1719: saved Sweden from coalition against her by despatching fleet to the Baltic, 1719; obtained repeal of Schism Act and assisted Suuderland in pressing on Peerage Bill (rejected in Commons), 1718-19; died after vehement speech on South Sea question; monument to him by Kysbrack in Westminster Abbey.
 * John Stanhope
 * ✅Leicester Fitzgerald Charles Stanhope
 * Sir Michael Stanhope
 * ✅Philip Stanhope
 * ✅Philip Stanhope
 * ✅Philip Stanhope
 * ✅Philip Dormer Stanhope Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773), statesman, wit, and letter writer: grandson of Philip Stanhope, second earl of Chesterfield; studied for a year at Trinity Hall, Cambridge; by influence of kinsman, James (afterwards Earl) Stanhope, named gentleman of bedchamber to Prince of Wales (afterwards George II), and was elected as whig M.P. for St. Germans, 1715, though a minor: formed Intimacy with Pope: cultivated acquaintance oi Hi nrU-tta Howard, mistress of Prince George, aad incurred enmity of his wife Caroline; M.P., Lostwithid, 1722-5; captain of gentlemen-pensioners, 1728-5; rejected Wulpole'g offer of the order of the Bath, and quarrelled witli him, 1725; succeeded to peerage, 17; privy councillor, 1727: accepted the Hague embassy, 1728; formed intimacy with Mile, du Boucbct, mother (1732) of his natural son; negotiated marriage of Prince of Orange with Anne, princess royal of England; ~LG. and lord steward. 1780; temporarily reconciled with Walpolc: signed treaty with Spain and Holland guaranteeing Pragmatic Sanction, 1731; retired from embassy, 1732; dismissal from lord stewardship for opposition to Excise Bill, 1733; attacked ministry In Fog's Journal von 4 d: er 3 toSrCoa.s l o? wtlsingham), daughter of the Ducless of Kendal, 1788; threatened lawsuit against the crown to recover legacy bequeathed by George I to bis wife's mother, and received 20.0UO. to stay proceedings; frequented society of men of letters in Paris; contributed to fall of Walpole, but continued in opposition; denounced in parliament proposal to hire Hanoverian troops, finl attacked new ministers in the press in letters signed Geffery Broadbottom 1743; acknowledged leader of opposition in House of Lords; received legacy from Dowager duchess of Marlborough in reward for political conduct, 1744, but entered Pelham ministry on retirement of Garteret. 1744; as envoy to the Hague induced Holland to take part in Austrian succession war, 1745; as viceroy in Ireland. 1746-6, kept the country quiet by his tolerant policy, and encouraged national industries; as secretary for the northern department, 1746-8, thwarted in his pacific policy by his colleague Newcastle; declined dukedom: Apology for a late Resignation 1748, inspired or partially written by him: introduced bill for reform of the calendar, 1751; in last speech denounced subsidy treaties with Prussia and Hesse-Cassel, 1755; on invitation of the court overcame Newcastle's objections to take office with Pitt, 1767; built (1749) Chesterfield House, South Audley Street, London, and formed picture galleries there and at Blackheath; wrote much in the World and corresponded with Voltaire and other French friends; elected to Academic des Inscriptions, 1755; patronised men of letters; the prospectus of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary addressed to him, 1747; eulogised Johnson's Dictionary in the World 1764: bore no malice for Dr. Johnson's letter (1756), rebuking him for neglect, and disclaimed responsibility for alleged refusal to receive him; maintained from 1737 an almost daily correspondence with his natural son, procuring his entrance into, parliament and diplomatic employment as envoy to the diet (1763) and minister at Hamburg (1756-64) and Dresden (1764-8); addressed similar letters (236 extant) to his godson and heir-presumptive, 1761-70; his posthumous reputation injured by hostility of leading contemporaries; caricatured as Sir John Chester in Barnaby Rudge; his political insight proved by prophecy (1753) of French revolution: his immorality much exaggerated, and his worldliuess tempered by real affection; political tracts and contributions to periodicals Common Sense 1737-9, The World 1753-6) only publications authorised in his lifetime: his Letters to his natural son published by widow (Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope) of the latter, 1774, Supplement 1787, French version, 1775, German, 1774-6; Miscellaneous Works (including Memoirs of his Life) prepared by Maty, and supplementary letters, withCharacters of Eminent Personages 1777; Miscellaneous Works collected, 1779; bis Letters relative to the education of his godson published, 1817. Collective editions of letters and literary works edited by Lord Mabon, 1845-53, and John Bradshaw, 1892; extracts from other unpublished letters in Ernst's Life of Chesterfield (1893).
 * ✅Philip Henry Stanhope Philip Henry Stanhope, fifth Earl Stanhope (1805–1875), historian; grandson of Charles Stanhope, third earl Stanhope; styled Viscount Mahon, 1816-66; B.A. Christ Church, Oxford, 1827, hon. D.O.L., 1834; conservative M.P., Wootton Bassett, 1830-2, Hertford, 1835-52; under-secretary for foreign affairs, 1834-5; president, Society of Arts, 1846-75; procured passing of bill amending copyright law, 1842; secretary to board of control (India), 1845-6; supported corn law repeal, 1846; one of Peel's literary executors; examiner at Oxford, 1855, and founder of prize for historical essay; obtained parliamentary grant for formation of National Portrait Gallery, and became chairman of trustees, 1857 (opened at Great George Street, Westminster, 1859, since thrice removed); lord rector, Aberdeen, 1858; effected removal of three state services from prayer-book, 1859; created LL.D. Cambridge, 1864; Historical Manuscripts Commission largely doe to him, 1869; proposed parliamentary grant for excavation of Troy; foreign associate of Institut de France, 1872; chairman of copyright commission, 1875; his History of the War of Succession in Spain, 1702-14 1832, baaed largely on papers of first Earl Stanhope; published History of England from Peace of Utrecht to Peace of Versailles, 1713-83 1838-63,Life of the Right Hon. William Pitt, with Extracts from his unpublished Correspondence etc., 1861-2 (last ed., 1879), History of England, comprising the Reign of Queen Anne until the Peace of Utrecht 1870, and other works, including Life of BeUsarius 1829, Spain under Charles II 1840, Essai sur la Vie du Grand Conde 1842 (in English, 1845), Memoirs of Sir Robert Peel 1856-7, collections of essays, and Notes of Conversations with Wellington 1888; edited Letters of Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield (1845, 1853), Secret Correspondence connected with Mr. Pitt's return to office in 1804 (1852), and other works.
 * ✅William Stanhope
 * ✅William Stanhope
 * ✅Richard Stanihurst
 * Mrs Stanley
 * Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
 * ✅Charlotte Stanley
 * Edward Stanley
 * Stanley
 * Stanley
 * Edward Stanley
 * Edward Stanley
 * Edward Stanley
 * ✅Edward George Geoffrey Stanley Edward George Geoffrey Stanley fourteenth EARL OK DERBY (1799-1869), statesman; son of Edward Smith Stanley, thirteenth earl of Derby q. v.1; of Eton and Christ Church, Oxford (hon. D.C.L., 1862); won chancellor's Latin verse prize, 1819: whig M.P., Stockbridge, 1820-6, Preston, 1826-30, Windsor, 1831-2, North Lancashire, 1832-44: under-secretary for the colonies under Ctmning and Goderich; as Irish secretary (1830-3) under Earl Grey attacked by O'Obnnell, whom he challenged: prosecuted O'Oounell for breach of Association Act, 1831; moderate supporter of parliamentary reform, pressing for concessions within the cabinet; after defeat of ministers on Lyndhurst's amendment (May 1832) supported full reform scheme: introduced Reform Bill for Ireland, 1832: instituted Irish board of works; introduced Irish Education Act, 1831: passed measures making tithe composition in Ireland compulsory, 1832; carried Peace Preservation Act and Irish Church Temporalities Act, 1833, though opposed by Althorp in the cabinet; as colonial secretary carried act for abolition of slavery, 1833: resigned, 1834, being opposed to appropriation of Irish church revenues for secular purposes; his independent party named by O'Connell theDerby Dilly joined conservative opposition, 1836; compelled whig government to modify Irish disendowment proposals; colonial secretary undi-r Peel, 1841-4; called up to House of Lords as Lord Stanley of Bickerstaffe, 1844; resigned on Peel's declaration in favour of immediate free trade; declined to form protectionist ministry, 1846, but reluctantly accepted leadership of anti-freetraders: made brilliant speeches in parliament on foreign affairs, 1848-51; attempted to form conservative ministry. 1851; succeeded to earldom, 1861: formed protectionist ministry (February 1852), but fallal to secure majority at general election (July), and resigned (December) after defeat on the budget: on Aberdeen's defeat (1855) again tried to form ministry; attacked foreign policy of Palmerstou ministry, 1866-8: during bis second premiership (18M-9) settled the Orsiui dispute with France, the Cagllari question with Naples, and difficulties with America concerning the right of search: introduced bill for equalisation of town and country franchise, but was beaten on clause disfranchising forty-shilling freeholders: dissolved parliament; resigned on carrying of Hartiugton's vote of want of confidence; created extra Jt.G.: came to understanding with Palmenton: prevented KiirlSsh intervention in German-Danish war, 1864; during third administration (1866-8) concerted with Disraeli    parliamentary Reform Bill of 1867; resigned, February 1868: call*! the Rupert of debateby Lord Lyttoo In    II theNew Tlmon   cotton famine largely doe to him; devoted to scholarship and sport: chancellor of Oxford University    arsip and  -:.:....;  1870; published of the Iliad    -:,..,..-!.-. in. , Including a version    (issued privately, 1869, published 1864). STANLEY, BDWARD HBNRY, fifteenth BAM. or  -.-..-.....-,.;:;.,:.  George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, fourteenth earl of Derby Fq. v.; of Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge; M.A., 184H, hon. LL.D., 186f (D.O.L. Oxford, 1863):    the    LL.D., Apostles    travelled in North America    ad - !:;:.-. 1848, Jams i,, ! i, oVx LtM M, Bengal, 1862 flLP., King's Lynn, 184849; undersecretary for foreign affairs, 1862: declined Palmerston's offer of colonial secretaryship, 18M; joined opposition to Crimean war; member of commission on army purchase; colonial secretary, and (after passing of India bill) Indian secretary in second Derby niinlktry (1868-9); in cabinet supported disfranchising clauses of Reform Hill, member of Cambridge University president Indian army and patent laws offered crown of Greece, 1863; made able speech ing Grosvenor's amendment to Reform BUI of 1866; suggested as head of a ministry, 1866; foreign secretary under Derby and Disraeli, 1866-8; mediated between France and Prussia, postponing war by hiscollective guarantee of Luxemburg, 1867; declined interference In Crete and Italy; in Alabama case admitted principle of arbitration; supported Reform BUI: led opposition to Irish disestablishment half-heartedly, 1869; succeeded as earl, 1869; as foreign secretary (1874-8) In Disraeli's second ministry accepted with hesitation purchase of Sues Canal shares and Austrian proposals for reforms in Turkey, demanded punishment of jwrpetrators of Bulgarian atrocities, and initiated Constantinople conference on Turkish reform (1876): resigned on Disraeli's ordering of British fleet to the Dardanelles, 1878 (January); resumed office on countermanding of order, but again resigned on calling out of the reserves (March): opposed acquisition of Cyprus and first Afghan war, 1879; left conservatives, 1880; at colonial secretary under Gladstone, 1882 ( December)- 18W, resisted further annexation of tropical colonies, concluded (invention of 1884 with the Boers, and discouraged Australian federation; K.G., 1884: joined liberal unionist*. and led them in House of Lords, 1886-91; preaided over labour commission, 1892; chancellor of London University, 1891 1893; lord rector of Glasgow University, 1868-71, Edinburgh University, 1876-80.
 * Edward John Stanley
 * Edward Smith Stanley
 * Ferdinando Stanley
 * Hans Stanley
 * Stanley
 * Standard
 * Henrietta Maria Stanley
 * Henry Stanley
 * James Stanley
 * James Stanley
 * Sir John Stanley
 * John Stanley
 * Montague Stanley
 * Thomas Stanley
 * ✅Thomas Stanley
 * Thomas Stanley
 * ✅Thomas Stanley
 * Venetia Stanley
 * ✅William Stanley (Battle of Bosworth)
 * ✅Sir William Stanley
 * William Stanley (dean)
 * Alfred Stannard
 * Joseph Stannard
 * Ephraim Gerrish Stannus
 * James Stansfeld
 * John Stanwix
 * Richard Stanwix
 * Abraham Stanyan

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 * Temple Stanyan
 * ✅James Stanyhurst 89sub
 * ✅Richard Stanyhurst 88
 * ✅William Stanyhurst 91sub
 * William de Stapeldon
 * Edward Staples
 * Augustus Granville Stapleton
 * ✅Brian de Stapleton
 * Gregory Stapleton
 * Miles de Stapleton

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 * ✅Miles de Stapleton
 * Miles Stapleton
 * Philip Stapleton
 * Robert Stapleton
 * Theobald Stapleton
 * ✅Thomas Stapleton (theologian)
 * Thomas Stapleton (antiquary)
 * Anthony Stapley
 * Sir John Stapley
 * Adam Stark
 * James Stark
 * William Stark (physician)
 * Mariana Starke
 * ✅Geoffrey Starkey
 * George Starkey
 * Sir Humphrey Starkey
 * Ralph Starkey
 * Thomas Starkey
 * Thomas Starkie
 * James Starley
 * Nicholas Statham
 * Sir William Staunford
 * Edmund Staunton
 * Francis French Staunton
 * George Leonard Staunton
 * Sir George Thomas Staunton
 * ✅Hervey de Staunton
 * Howard Staunton
 * Sir Charles William Dunbar Staveley
 * Thomas Staveley
 * William Staveley
 * John Stawell
 * William Foster Stawell
 * George Stayley
 * William Stayley
 * ✅✅Sir Richard Stayner
 * Henry Stebbing
 * Henry Stebbing
 * Henry Stebbing
 * Charles Stedman
 * John Andrew Stedman
 * John Gabriel Stedman
 * Rowland Stedman
 * ✅Sir Scudamore Winde Steel
 * Anne Steele
 * Christopher Steele
 * Joshua Steele
 * Richard Steele
 * Sir Richard Steele Sir Richard Steele (1672–1729). author and politician: born at Dublin a few weeks before Addison, his schoolfellow at Charterhouse, London: postmaster. Merton College, Oxford, 1691-4: cadet in life-guards, 1694; dedicated mourning verses on Queen Mary to John, baron Cutte; became his secretary, 1696-7: received commission: published The Christian Hero 1701: his comedy, The Funeral acted at Drury Lane, London, 1701 (published same year), noticed by William III: captain of foot, 1702; hi*Lying Lovergiven at Drury Lane, London, 1703 (published, 1704), andThe Tender Husband partly by Addison, 1703 (printed): gentleman waiter to Prince George of Denmark, 1706: named gazetteer by ll.iri.-v. 1707; married cecretly Miss Mary Scurlock (second wife), 1707; bis letters to her presented to British Mumim, 1787; began theTaller April 1709; carried it on with help of Addison till January 1711, writing himself M 'Isaac Bickerstaff 188 numbers out of 271; commissioner of stamp*, 1710; lost gazetu-ersbip for satirising Harley. 1710; with Addisou carried on the Spectator? 1711-12, writing 236 papers and sketching the Spectator Club (No. 2); carried on theGuardianas non-political till attacked by the tory Ex amnor 1713; reigned office and penwion and was elected M P. for Ptockbridirt, 1713; attacked government on demolition of Dunkirk question: i the whig Englishman October 171 3- February 1714: issued The Crisis in favour of Hanoverian succession, January 1714, answered br Swift'sPublic Spirit of the Whigs: expelled House of Commons for seditious libel (March); publishedPoetical Miscellanies 1714, and further political pamphlets: on accession of George I named J P., deputy-lieutenant for Middlesex, surveyor of Hampton Court stables, and supervisor of Drury Lane Theatre, London; issued The LadiesLibrary and Mr. Steele's Apology 1714: M.P., Horouphbridtre, 1715, Yndorer, 1722; knighted, 1715; established the * Censoriutn in ViHiers Street, London, 1715: commissioner for Scottish forfeited estates, 1716; his denunciation in the Plebeian (1718) of Sunderland's Peerage Bill answered by Addison in theOld Whig causing quarrel and withdrawal of Drury Lane patent, 1720 (restored, 1721); issued The Theatre * and pamphlets against South Sea mania, 1720; published second edition of Addison'sDrummer with reply to Tickell's charges, 1721: his last comedy,The Conscious Lovers produced at Drury Lane, London, 1722.
 * Thomas Steele
 * Thomas Montague Steele
 * William Steele
 * Gourlay Steell
 * John Steell
 * Edward Steere
 * Charles Steevens
 * George Steevens
 * George Warrington Steevens
 * Richard Steevens
 * John Stenhouse
 * William Stenhouse
 * Joseph Stennett
 * Joseph Stennett
 * Samuel Stennett
 * Francis Philip Stephanoff
 * James Stephanoff
 * Stephen Stephen (1097?–1154), king of England; son of Stephen Henry, count of Blois, and Adela. daughter of William I; brought up by Henry I; knighted and granted lands in England and county of Mortain: acquired Alencon, 1118; constantly with Henry I after death of his sou William: swore first of lay barons to acknowledge Empress Matilda as heir to England and Normandy, 1126, also her son, 1133; claimed Knplish crown, 1135; chosen king by London; crowned at Westminster, 1135; issued charter; acknowledged in Normandy; recognised by Pope Innocent II, despite Matilda's appeal, 1136; bought off David I of Scotland: inmed w-cond.-li.irt.-r, 1136, promising to surrender lands arr.r.--t.-i by H.-nry I; crushed barons at Norwich, Bam pton, and Kx.-t.-r; made truce with Geoffrey of An jou, 1137; drove back Scots, 1138; alienated barons by favouring foreigners and extravagance: took Shrewsbury, 11S8; took Leeds C n -tl- Kmt ) and made treaty with Scotland, but failed it-fort- Ludlow. 1139; arrested Bishop Roger of * iry and his son and nephew; crashed revolt   of Isle of Ely and took BangayOuUe, 1140; defeated and captured, after gallant fight at Lincoln by Robert ear) of Gloucester, 1141; imprisoned at Bristol and deposed by church council, but soon released in exchange for Gloucester, and again crowned, 1141; first English king who allowed tournaments; took Oxford and blockaded Matilda In the castle. 11 42; routed n.-. 1143; failed elsewhere, bat was successful against Gloucester in the west 1144; defeated barons in Norfolk and Essex, 1146; regained Bedford, built Crowmarsh, and compelled Randulf of Chester to surrender Lincoln, 1146: reduced earls of Chester and Pembroke, 1149; failed before Worcester Castle, 1160-1; at fend with the papacy. 11471161, causing interdict 1148: failed to obtain papal sanction for coronation of his son Eustace, 1162: made trace with Henry of Aujou at Crowmarsh: concluded treaty of Wallingford, 11 53, obtaining crown for life, but giving op succession; lost his only surviving son, 1164; burial in Feversham Abbey (his foundation).
 * Stephen
 * Saint Stephen
 * Stephen de Tours
 * Stephen de Turnham
 * Stephen de Lexinton
 * Stephen of Exeter
 * ✅Stephen de Gravesend
 * Stephen Langton Stephen
 * Sir Alfred Stephen
 * Edward Stephen
 * ✅Sir George Stephen
 * Henry John Stephen
 * James Stephen
 * Sir James Stephen
 * Sir James Fitzjames Stephen
 * James Kenneth Stephen
 * Alexander Stephens (biographer)
 * Catherine Stephens
 * Charles Edward Stephens
 * Edward Stephens
 * Edward Bowring Stephens
 * George Stephens (playwright)
 * ✅George Stephens (philologist)

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 * Henry Stephens
 * James Francis Stephens
 * Jane Stephens
 * Jeremiah Stephens
 * John Stephens
 * Joseph Rayner Stephens
 * Nathaniel Stephens (clergyman)
 * ✅Sir Philip Stephens
 * Robert Stephens
 * Thomas Stephens

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 * Thomas Stephens
 * William Stephens
 * William Stephens
 * George Stephenson
 * Henry Palfrey Stephenson
 * James Stephenson (engraver)
 * Robert Stephenson
 * Samuel Martin Stephenson:
 * Thomas Stephenson
 * Catherine Stepney
 * George Stepney
 * Anthony Coningham Sterling
 * Edward Sterling
 * James Sterling (playwright)
 * ✅John Sterling (author)
 * Henry Aaron Stern
 * John Sterne
 * ✅John Sterne (bishop of Clogher)
 * Laurence Sterne Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), humorist and sentimentalist; great-grandson of Richard Sterne; born at Clonmel; the sou of a subaltern in the army; after some yearswandering spent eight years at school in Halifax; left penniless; sent to Cambridge by a cousin (Richard): sizar, Jesus College, 1733, exhibitioner, 1734: matriculated, 1736; intimate with John Hall-Stevenson ; M.A., 1740; curate of Buckden; became vicar of Sutton-iu-tbe-Forest, 1738, and prebendary of York, 1741, also obtaining a sinecure office; married Miss Lamley, 1741; first used epithet sentimental in letter, 1740; obtained, by wife's influence, Stillingtou, parish adjoining Sut ton, 1743, being also chaplain to fourth Earl of Aboyue; 1 in local private enclosure act*, 1766, 1766; dabbled In painting and music; joined in orgies of Demouiacks at Hall-Mcven-on house: showed affection for hU only child; troubled by his mother's demands for money: said to have let her die of nturvation; published, 1750, assize sermon, inserted inTristram Shandy satirised Yorkshire lawyer as Trim in sketch first published, 1769, asA Political Romance addressed to Esq. of York (rareX afterwards reprinted as History of a Warm Watch Coat; unfaithful to his wife, who became insane, 1768; beganTristram Shandy 1769; carried on flirtation with Mademoiselle Fourmantelle; vols. i. and ii. of his Tristram Shandy orbited at York by publisher of sermons, 1760; taken by Croft to London, where he was well received in society: second edition of bis Tristram and S-MIUHK of Mr. Yorick issued by Dodsley, 1760, the latter being commended by Gray; his Tristram Shandy * unpopular in Yorkshire on account of its recognisable portraits of local characters, such as Dr. John Burton (1710-1771) op; d -mm need by Dr., Richardson, Horace Walpole, Uoldnmith, and o moral and literary grounds: ineffectual attempt* made by Warburton to restrain his obscenity: many pamphlet* issued against him, 1760-1; received perpetual curacy of Cox wold, 1760; called bouse at Cbxwold (which now baa tablet) Shandy Hall; visited London to superintend publication of vols. lit and Iv. of Trirtram 1761: preached at Foundling Hospital, London; vols. v. ami vi. of Tristram dedicated to Lord Spencer, lasoed for him by Becket, December 1761; went abroad for his health, January 1762; well received in I'ars.-iloiis; entertained by Fox at St. (.iermain; joined by wife and daughter; lived at Toulouse, and, till February 1764, in the south of France; left wife and daughter behind at Montauban, by their wish; spent April-May 1764 in Paris, seeing much of Wilkes and preaching at English ambassador's chapel; published books vii. and viii. of Tristram 1765: painted by Gainsborough at Bath, 1765; began seven monthstour described in Sentimental Journey October 1765; went by Paris, Lyons, and Savoy to Italy; well received at Rome, where he met Smollett Smelfungus; in Naples, February 1766; in Yorkshire again, June 1766; issued book ix. ofTristram Shandy with dedication to Chatham, containing sentence supposed to have suggested Burns's lines about theguinea stamp 1767; also published vols. iii. and iv. 6fSermons Voltaire being among the subscribers: during visit to London, December 1766 to May 1767, met, at house of Sir William James, Mrs. Eliza Draper; kept journal addressed to her The Bnimine's Journal manuscript in British MnseumX April to August 1767, after her departure for India; after two monthsvisit from wife and daughter at Cox wold, arranged permanent separation: parted reluctantly with daughter; hisSentimental Journey issued, 1768: died of pleurisy in Old Bond Street lodgings, London; buried in St. George's cemetery, Bays water Road, London; body said to have been resurrected ami sold to Charleg Gollignon, the skeleton being long preserved at Cambridge; inscription on stone at St. George's erected bytwo brother masonsinaccurate; left no will, and died insolvent; wife and daughter relieved through subscriptions collected by Hall-Stevenson and Mrs. Draper, and by publication (1769) of three more volumes of sermons; publication of his letters to Mr.?. Draper threatened by widow In default of blackmail; his letters published by his daughter (Madame Medalle), 1775; publication of Letters of Yorick to Eliza ( 1766-7) authorised by Mrs. Draper, 1775. The Letters from Eliza to Yorick 1775, andLetters supposed to have been written by Yorick and Eliza 1779, are forgeries.  Among fraudulent imitations of his writings were John Carr's third volume ofTristram Shandy 1760, J. HallStevenson's continuation of theSentimental Journey 17G9, and Richard Griffith's Posthumous Works of a late celebrated Genius 1770(included in first collected edition). His works contain many literary thefts, and the general scheme ofTristramclosely resembles that of John Dunstan'sA Voyage round the World... the rare adventures of Don Kainophilus(1720?). But his style is original, and his characters are of the first class. First collective edition ofTristram Shandypublished, 1767, last, 1779;Sermons of Mr. Yorick first reissued collectively, 1775, last, 1787;Sentimental Journeyreissued with plates, 1792; first collective edition of complete works (without letters) published, 1779 (Dublin): best early edition (with letters and Hogarth's plates) published, 1780; Dr. J. P. Browne's (containing much newly recovered correspondence), 1873.TheSentimental Journey has been often translated.
 * Richard Sterne
 * Thomas Sternhold

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 * Nathaniel Sterry
 * Peter Sterry
 * Henry Seton Steuart
 * James Steuart
 * Sir James Steuart
 * James Steuart
 * Reginald Macdonald Steuart-Seton
 * Alfred Stevens
 * Francis Stevens
 * George Alexander Stevens
 * John Stevens

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 * Richard John Samuel Stevens
 * ✅✅William Stevens (writer)
 * William Bagshaw Stevens
 * Lord Stevenson
 * Alan Stevenson
 * David Stevenson
 * George Stevenson
 * George John Stevenson
 * John Stevenson
 * Sir John Andrew Stevenson
 * John Hall Stevenson
 * Joseph Stevenson
 * Matthew Stevenson
 * Robert Stevenson
 * Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson
 * Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (1840–1894), sntbor and traveller; son of Thomas Stevenson q. v.l; born in Edinburgh; entered student at Edinburgh University, 1867: pupil of Fleming Jenkin; silver medallist, Edinburgh Society of Arts, for paper on lighthouse improvements, 1871; abandoned engineering for law; was admitted advocate, 1875, but never practised: composed essay onPentland Rising of 1666* in sixteenth year (printed, 1866); contributed toEdinburgh University Magazine 1871, to Portfolio 1873; went on canoe tour in France and Belgium, 1876 (described in the Inland Voyage 1878): in Paris and Cevennes country, 1878; contributed to -Conihlli;Temple Bar andLondon 1876 1878; travelled to California by emigrant ship and train, 1879; though very ill wrote stories and essays; married Mrs. Osbourne, 1880: returned home with her, 1880, after stay at Oallstoga (described inSilverado Squatters 1883); unsuccessful candidate for Edinburgh chair of history and constitutional law, 1881; lived in Scotland, but wintered in Switzerland and France, 1880-3: settled at Bournemouth, 1884; collaborated witii Mr.. K. Henley in Beau Austin Robert Macaire and Admiral Guinea(plays); established position as author with 'Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1886, and 'Kidnapped 1886; went to America, 1887; set out on South Sea voyage, June 1888; stayed at Honolulu, visiting leper settlement at Molokai, 1889; fint lived in Samoa. 1889-90, where be boughtVaillmaproperty: settled there, November 1890: wrote vindication of Father Damieu at Sydney, 1890; in Samoa temporarily recovered health: corresponded with men of letters in England: obtained removal of white officials from Samoa, and wroteA Footnote to History 1893: died suddenly from ruptnre of a blood-vessel of tins brain, and was buried in spot selected by himself on Mount Vaea. His works include Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes 1879. Virginibu* PueriSQue 1881.Treasure Island andNew Arabian Nlghta? 882, Prince OttoandChUd'sOarden of Verse* 1886,UndeioodsandMemories and PortnuU 1887. theMarterof Ballantime 1889,Across the Plains 189*. 'Csrtriona 1893. -The Wrecker 1892, andTh* EbbTide with Lloyd Osbourne, 1894, and the posthumous Vailima Letters 1895. Weir of Hermiston*    'Vailima Letters 1895.Weir of Hermiston (fragment nil best work), 1897, andSt. Ives* (unfinished), 1897. The SMM ftttebWifc rfWo.,.-,; I, LW...omtAlns renrints from periodicals, and an nnprinted    contains repriuto from periodicals, fragment of family history.
 * Seth William Stevenson
 * Thomas Stevenson
 * William Stevenson (physician)
 * ✅✅William Stevenson (publisher)
 * ✅✅William Stevenson (Scottish writer)
 * W. B. Stevenson
 * William Fleming Stevenson
 * ✅Richard Steward
 * Robert the Steward
 * Robert Steward
 * Sir Simeon Steward
 * Thomas Steward
 * Thomas Stewardson
 * Alexander Stewart
 * Alexander Stewart
 * Alexander Stewart
 * Alexander Stewart
 * Alexander Stewart
 * Alexander Stewart
 * Alexander Stewart
 * Alexander Patrick Stewart
 * Andrew Stewart
 * Avondale
 * Andrew Stewart
 * Andrew Stewart
 * Anthony Stewart (painter)
 * Arabella Stewart
 * Archibald James Stewart
 * Archibald James Edward Stewart
 * Balfour Stewart
 * Bernard Stewart
 * ✅Lord Bernard Stewart
 * Charles Stewart
 * Charles Stewart
 * Charles Stewart
 * Charles Edward Stewart
 * Charles James Stewart
 * Charles William Stewart
 * David Stewart
 * David Stewart
 * Sir Donald Martin Stewart
 * Dugald Stewart
 * Esmé Stewart
 * Francis Stewart
 * Frances Teresa Stewart
 * ✅Helen D'Arcy Cranstoun Stewart
 * Henry Stewart
 * Henry Stewart
 * Henry Stewart
 * ✅Henry Benedict Maria Clement Stewart
 * Sir Herbert Stewart
 * Sir Houston Stewart
 * James Stewart
 * James Stewart
 * James Stewart
 * ✅Lord James Stewart Lord James Stewart, EARL OP MAR, and afterwards of MORAY (1531 V - 1570), natural eon of James V; half-brother of Mary Queen of Scots; granted Tantallon, 1536, priory of St. Andrews, 1538; studied at St. Andrews, 1541-4; accompanied Mary Stuart to France, 1548; repelled English raid on Fife, 1549; visited France, 1550, 1552; legitimated, 1551; attended Kuox's teaching at laird of Dun's, 1555; signed invitation to him to return, 1557: fell ill after witnessing marriage of Mary Stuart to dauphin, 1557; at first supported regency of Mary of Guise; on discovery of her bad faith headed lords of the congregation, 1559; with Argyll drove French from Perth and attacked Scone; disavowed designs on the crown; procured suspension of the regent and negotiated with Queen Elizabeth for help against the French; concluded treaty at Berwick providing for expulsion of French, but safeguarding of Mary Stuart's sovereign rights, 1560; reoccnpied Edinburgh by English help, and concluded treaty confirming that of Berwick, 1560; deputed, 1561, by Scottish estates to sound Mary Stuart after death of Francis II, 1560; strongly dissuaded her from attempting to Romanise Scotland; won confidence of Queen Elizabeth by disclosing his conduct, but deprecated English attempts to prevent or intercept Mary Stuart's return to Scotland; opposed proposal to debar Mary Stuart in Scotland from the mass; privy councillor, 1561; privately granted earldom of Moray, but assumed title Earl of Mar, 1562; virtually home secretary; by expedition against Liddesdale prevented Bothwell's establishment in southern Scotland; formally created Earl of Moray after personal expedition of Mary Stuart against Huutly (holder of title), 1562; on Queen Elizabeth's refusal to recognise Mary as her successor, supported projected Spanish alliance of Mary, 1563; opposed the Darnley match; thenceforth estranged from Mary; attempted capture of Mary and Darnley before marriage, 1565; backed by Knox and Lennox's enemies, but not by bulk of protestauts; deceived by Queen Elizabeth; publicly disavowed and insulted by Queen Elizabeth, but granted asylum in England and privately received, 1565: after failure to procure Riccio's intercession joined plot against him; supported charge of infidelity against Mary and promised to acknowledge Daruley; returned after Riccio's assassination, 1566; affected to.favour Both well's pretensions and was nominally reconciled to Mary; tacitly sanctioned murder of Darnley, though probably not cognisant of Bothwell's plan; left Scotland for France immediately afterwards, 1567; returned on Mary Stuart's abdication at Lochleven: accepted the regency at her personal request, 1567, making great show of reluctance; promoted declaration of her privity to the Darnley murder; secured punishment of subordinates, but took no steps against principal in the crime; took rapid measures to defeat Mary after escape from Locbleven: secured his position as regent by formal sanction of Queen Elizabeth, though pretending approval of the Norfolk marriage scheme; voted against divorce from Bothwell, but after discovery of Norfolk's intrigues excused his apparent approval of them and made revelations; caused Maitlaud of Lethlngton to be accused of Darnley's murder, and imprisoned, 1569; captured and imprisoned Northumberland; proposal to Queen Elizabeth imprisonment of Mary Stuart, or Johanna in.-.-otliin.l, 15C9; assassinated at Linlithgow by James Hamilton (.. ir,G6-1880)oC BothweUhaugh; buned :it. i iil.-X Edinburgh; called the good regent  riiv. 7
 * James Stewart
 * John Stewart
 * James Stewart
 * James Stewart
 * James Stewart
 * John Stewart
 * ✅James Francis Edward Stewart
 * John Stewart
 * Sir John Stewart
 * John Stewart
 * John Stewart
 * Sir John Stewart
 * John Stewart
 * John Stewart
 * John Stewart
 * John Stewart
 * ✅Louisa Stewart
 * ✅Ludovick Stewart
 * ✅Maria Clementina Stewart
 * Mary Stewart
 * Matthew Stewart
 * Matthew Stewart
 * Matthew Stewart
 * ✅Murdac Stewart
 * Patrick Stewart, 2nd Earl of Orkney
 * Patrick Stewart
 * Robert Stewart
 * Robert Stewart
 * ✅Lord Robert Stewart
 * Sir Robert Stewart
 * Robert Stewart
 * Robert Stewart Rodert Stewart, second MARQUIS OF Londonderry, better known as Viscount Castlereagh (1769–1822), statesman: son of Robert Stewart, flrst marquis of Londonderry; studied at St. John's College, Cambridge, 1788, and abroad: M.P., oo. Down (Irish parUamentX 1790; M.P., Tregony, 1704-6, Oxford, 1796-7; supported enfranchisement of Irish Roman catholics; at flrst voted with opposition; as keeper of Irish privy seal, 1797-8, was acting chief seoretary to Ttceroy; forestalled United Irish rebellion by arresting leaden: procured English troops to replace Irish militia; chief secretary for Ireland, 1799-1801, being specially selected by Pitt; impressed on ministry necessity for immediate union; solely responsible for its passing through Irish parliament, 1800. though reluctantly employing corruption; threatened resignation on refusal of ministry to recommend all peerages promised; pressed for introduction of Irish Catholic Emancipation Bill; resigned on George Ill's refusal, 1801: after union represented ob. Down, 1800-6 and 1812-20, Boroughbridge, 181)6, Plyrnptou-Earl, 18061812, Oxford, 1821-2; had unofficial charge of Addington's Irish measures, 1801; prepared plans for Irish tithe commutation, and recommended state payment of Roman catholic priests; at Pitt's request became president of (East India) board of control under Addington, 1802; supported Lord Welle* ley against court of directors and the cabinet, and conducted negotiations with Persia; appointed by Pitt to war and colonial office in addition to board of control, 1805; responsible for abortive Elbe expedition, 1805; attacked Grenville's foreign policy, 1806; again war secretary, 1807; made treaty with Prussia, secured Danish fleet, saved Swedish and Portuguese fleets from Napoleon I, 1807; prepared expedition to Portugal, 1808, vainly endeavouring to secure chief command for Sir Arthur Wellesley; seut Wellesley to Portugal, 1809, and supported him throughout; increased army; his Walcheren expedition delayed and ruined by dissension between commanders and fever, 1809; his supersession agreed upon in cabinet under influence of Canning; declined presidency of council; fought duel with Canning, wounding him, 1809; resigned: supported ministerial policy whilst out of office, 1809-12; member of bullion committee; supported continued suspension of cash payments, 1811; refused peerage; foreign secretary, 1812-22; led House of Commons after Perceval's death: rejected Napoleon I's overtures and increased troops in Peninsula, 1812; brought about peace between Russia and Turkey, Sweden and Russia, and concluded treaties with Russia and Sweden, 1812; increased foreign subsidies, 1813; by his exertions as British plenipotentiary on the continent procured treaty of Cbaumont, 1814; arranged with Austria at Dijon affairs of Italy; signed preliminaries of peace at Parts with reservations, after Napoleon's abdication, 1814; opposed to Elba settlement; K.G.: senior British plenipotentiary at congress of Vienna, 1814-15; in consequence of determined ojpoltion on I'oli-h question by Russia and Prussia, concluded offensive and defensive treaty with Prance and Austria, 1815: peace having meanwhile been made with America, effected a compromise, a paper constitution being granted Poland, Luxemburg given to Netherlands and Genoa to Piedmont, and abolition of slave trade after term of promised by France and Spain: on Napoleon's escape increased foreign subsidies and refused separate peart-: after Waterloo restrained allies from retaliations on France; selected St. Helena and settled terms of  oil's confinement; restored Java to the Dutch;  il in Commons on income tax, 1816; in cabinet opposed resumption of cash payments, 1819; with Sidmouth held responsible for the Six Acts, 1819: measures against Queen Caroline imputed to him, 1820; made treaties with Spain (1817) and Belgium (1818) for aboil   tton of slave trade: a  1818, cun-olidated eetttanent of 181ft by further trea't e.:   ommtoed nidd* at coontry  seat; buried in WeMmineter Abbey.
 * Robert Prescott Stewart
 * Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart
 * Walter Stewart
 * Walter Stewart
 * Walter Stewart
 * Walter Stewart
 * Sir William Stewart
 * William Stewart
 * William Stewart
 * Sir William Stewart
 * Sir William Stewart
 * William Stewart
 * William Stewart
 * ✅Maria Elizabeth Frederica Stewart-Mackenzie
 * Robert de Stichil
 * Stigand
 * John Still
 * Benjamin Stillingfleet
 * ✅Edward Stillingfleet
 * Edward Stillingfleet (physician)
 * Robert Stillington
 * Earl of Stirling
 * Charles Stirling
 * ✅James Stirling (mathematician)
 * Sir James Stirling
 * James Stirling
 * ✅Mary Ann Stirling
 * Robert Stirling
 * ✅Sir Thomas Stirling
 * Sir Walter Stirling
 * William Stirling-Maxwell
 * Sir Henry William Stisted
 * Joseph Stock
 * Richard Stock
 * Simeon Stock
 * John Stockdale
 * John Joseph Stockdale
 * Percival Stockdale
 * Thomas Stocker
 * Arthur Stocks
 * Lumb Stocks
 * Owen Stockton
 * John Stockwood
 * Joachim Hayward Stocqueler
 * Charles Stoddart
 * Sir John Stoddart
 * Thomas Tod Stoddart
 * Hubert Stogdon
 * David Stokes
 * George Thomas Stokes
 * Henry Sewell Stokes
 * John Lort Stokes
 * Margaret Stokes
 * Peter Stokes
 * Whitley Stokes
 * William Stokes
 * Sir William Stokes
 * ✅John Stokesley
 * Alfred Stone
 * Andrew Stone
 * Benjamin Stone
 * Edmund Stone
 * Edward James Stone
 * Francis Stone
 * Frank Stone
 * George Stone

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 * Gilbert Stone
 * Henry Stone (painter)
 * Jerome Stone
 * John Stone
 * John Hurford Stone
 * Nicholas Stone
 * Nicholas Stone
 * Samuel Stone
 * William Stone
 * ✅Stonehenge (editor)

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 * Richard Stonehewer
 * ✅John de Stonford
 * ✅✅James Stonhouse
 * ✅John de Stonor
 * Leonard Stopes
 * Richard Stopes
 * James Stopford
 * Joshua Stopford
 * Robert Stopford
 * Anna Selina Storace
 * Stephen Storace
 * Anthony Morris Storer
 * Henry Sargant Storer
 * James Sargant Storer
 * Thomas Storer
 * Sir Henry Knight Storks
 * Stormont
 * Edward Story
 * ✅✅George Warter Story
 * John Story
 * ✅✅Robert Story (minister)
 * ✅Robert Story (poet)
 * ✅✅Thomas Story
 * ✅Anna Eliza Stothard
 * Charles Alfred Stothard
 * Thomas Stothard
 * Richard Hugh Stotherd
 * Israel Stoughton
 * ✅John Stoughton
 * ✅William Stoughton (Massachusetts)
 * Sir Frederick Stovin