Sterling, Anthony Coningham STERLING, ANTHO>fY CONINGHAM. Adm. pens, (age i8) at Trinity, June 14, 1823. [Eldest] s. of [Captainj Edward (and Hester, dau. of John Coningham, of Londonderry). B. at Dundalk [1S05], Louth. School, Greenwich, Kent. At Glasgow Univ., 1821-3. Matric. Michs. 1823. Ensign, 24th Foot, 1826; Captain, 73rd Foot, 1834. Served in the Crimea, 1854-5, as Brigade Major and later as A.A.-G., Highland Division; present at the Alma, Balaklava and Inkerman and the siege of Sebastopol; Order of the Legion of Honour; Turkish medal, Medjidie, 4th class. Retired as Colonel, 1S57, but served again as Military Secretary to Sir Colin Campbell in the Indian Mutiny, 1858-9. C.B., 1855; K.C.B., i860. Married, 1829, Charlotte, dau. of Major-General Joseph Baird. Author, Russia under Nicholas I (a translation) ; Letters from the Army in the Crimea, icritten by a Staff Officer; The Story of the Highland Brigade in the Crimea. Died Mar. 1, 1871, in London. Brother of John (1824). (D.N.B.) STERLING, JAMES WIDMAN. Adm. pens, at St John's, May 28, 1778. B. in the parish of St George's, Hanover Square, London. Matric. Michs. 1778; Scholar, 1778; B.A. 1782. STERLING, JOHN. Adm. pens, (age 18) at Trinity, Feb. 9, 1824. [2nd] s. of [Captain] Edward (for whom see D.N.B.) [of South Place, Knightsbridge, London]. B. [July 20, 1806], at Kames Castle, Bute. School, Christ's Hospital, London. At Glasgow Univ., 1822-4. Matric. Michs. 1824. Left Cam- bridge; but adm. at Trinity HaD, Mar. 20, 1826; Scholar, 1827; B.A. 1834; M.A. 1838. President of the Union, 1827. One of the original members of the Apostles Club. Adm. at the Inner Temple, Apr. 30, 1828. Co-editor, with Maurice, of the Athenaeum, 1829. Helped to organise an unsuccessful expedition to overthrow the Spanish government, 1830. Married, Nov. 2, 1830, Susannah, dau. of Lieut. -General Bcirton, Life Guards. Went to St Vincent in the West Indies for the sake of his health, where he was almost killed by a hurricane. Ord. deacon, 1834; C. (to the Ven. JuUus Hare, Archdeacon of Sussex) at Hurstmonceaux, Sussex, 1834-5. Relinquished the curacy on account of his health (Carlyle says on account of religious doubts). Founded the Sterling Club, 1838. Friend of Carlyle and rendered famous by Carlyle's biography, 1851. Archdeacon Hare also wrote his life. Spent a great deal of time at Falmouth, where he became intimate with the Quaker family of Fox. Barclay Fox wrote of him in 184 1 — 'His eloquence was like a clear cascade. His knowledge seems almost universal.. . .To know him is a privilege the highest might be proud of.' .Author, Arthur Coningsby; Poems; Strafford. Lived latterly at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, where he died of consumption, Sept. 18, 1844. Brother of Anthony C. (1823). (D.N.B.; WUson Harris, Caroline Fox; W. B. Donne and his Friends; Thomas Carlyle, Life of John Sterling; G. Mag., 1844, 11. 438.) STERLING, JOHN BARTON. Adm. pens, at Trinity, Jan. 21, 1859. [Youngest] s. of John. B. [Oct. 12, 1840], at Clifton, near Bristol. School, Eton. Matric. Michs. 1859. After short service in the Navy, joined the 8th Regt. of Foot as Ensign, 1861; Lieut., Coldstream Guards, 1861; Capt., 1866; Lieut. - Colonel, 1873; Colonel, 1885. Served at Suakim; wounded at Tel-el-Kebir. Major-General, 1896. Retired, 1901. Married, Oct. 2, 1863, at Pelynt, Cornwall, Caroline Matilda, dau. of Sir John Salusbury Trelawny, Bart. Died Dec. 5, 1926, {Eton Sch. Lists; Army Lists; Boase, Collect. Cornub., 923; Who -cL'as Who.) STERN, ALFRED JAMES. Adm. FeU.-Com. at Downing, Oct. 14, 1878. Of 4, Hyde Park Gate, Kensington, London, S.W. Did not reside. STERN, HENRY ALFRED. Matric. Non-CoU., Lent, 1882; from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, whence he had matric. Oct. 21, 1880, age 18. [Eldest s. of the Rev. Henry Aaron, of Palestine Place, London. School, St Paul's.] Adm. pens, at Do\vning, Feb. 9, 18S4; B.A. 1884; M.A. 1890. Died Mar. 12, 1947, at Bournemouth. {St Paul's Sch. Reg.; Al. Oxon.; .4rmy Lists; The Times, Mar. 15, 1947.) STERN, JOHN. Adm. pens, at Corpus Christi, Oct. i, 1898. S. of John, clothier, of Wellington Road, Bilston, Staffs. B. Apr. 16, 1879, at 48, Church Street, Bilston. School, Wolver- hampton Grammar. Matric. Michs. 1898; B.A. 1901; M.A. 1905. Ord. deacon (Worcester) 1902; priest, 1903; C. of St Thomas's, Birmingham, 1902-5. C. of All Souls, Langham Place, London, 1905-8. C. of Greyfriars, Reading, 1908-11. V. of St Peter's, Clifton Wood, Bristol, 191 1-2 1. V. of Fowey, Cornwall, 1921-3. Died June 4, 1923, at Plymouth. {Crockford.) STERN, LEOPOLD JOHN. Adm. at Trinity Hall, 1889. S. of L., Esq., of Crowborough House, Crowborough, Sussex [and Strawberry HiU, Twickenham]. School, Eton. Matric. Michs. 1889. {Eton Sch. Lists.) Stevens, Charles Abbot STERN, SYDNEY JAMES. Adm. pens, (age 26) at M.\gdalene, Oct. 12, 1870. [Eldest] s. of David [Viscount de Stem, banker], of 22, Queen's Gate, London (and Sophia, dau. of Aaron A. Goldsmid). Matric. Michs. 1870. Adm. at the Inner Temple, May 13, 1874. Head of the London hnn of Stem brothers, financiers. Of Hengrave Hall, Suffolk. J. P. for Surrey and for London. Hon. Col., 4th Batt., East Surrey Regt. M.P. for the Stowmarket Division of SuSolk, 1891-5. Created Baron Wandsworth, 1895. Died, unmarried, Feb. 10, igi2, in London. (Walford, County Families; G.E.C.; The Times, Feb. lo, 1912.) STERNDALE-BENNETT, see BENNETT. STERRY, WASEY. Adm. at King's, a scholar from Eton, Dec. 24, 1852. [Eldest s. of Wasey, solicitor (and Frances, eldest dau. of Thomas Tourle, of Landport, Lewes, Sussex).] B. [Sept. 2, 1833], at Upminster, Essex. Matric. Lent, 1853. Did not graduate. FeUow, 1855. Died, unmarried, July 24, 1858, aged 24, at The Terrace, Camberwell, Surrey; buned at Upminster. (G. Mag., 1858, 11. 315; Sir Wasey Sterry.) STEUART, ANDREW. Adm. pens, at Trinity, Feb. 11, 1840. [Only s. of Patrick, Esq., of Auchlunkart and Tanachie, Banffs. (and Rachel M. D., dau. of Lachlan Gordon, 9th of Park). B. May 25, 1822. School, Edinburgh Academy; and at Glasgow Univ., 1838.] Matric. Michs. 1840; Scholar, 1843; B.A. {5th Classic) 1844; M.A. 1848. Adm. at the Imier Temple, Mar. 4, 1844. J. P. for Aberdeens. J. P. and D.L. for Banffs. M.P. for Cambridge, 1857-63- Oi Auchlunkart and Tanachie, which he resigned to his son, George .Alexander, in 1885. Married, 1847, his cousin, EUzabeth Georgiana Graham, 3rd dau. of Thomas Dufi Gordon, of Park. Died Jan. 27, 1905, at Mentone. {Edinburgh Acad. Reg.; Inns of Court; Burke, L.G.; Walford, County Families.) STEUART, JAMES. Adm. pens, (age 18) at Emmanuel, Dec. 16 1762. S. of Admiral Steuart. B. in Westmmster. Educated in Paddington by Mr Lally. Matric. Lent, 1763. STEUART, JAMES (1787), see STEWART, JAMES WILLIAM. STEVELLY, ROBERT SANKEY. Adm. pens, at Peterhouse, Oct. 18, 1864. S. of John, Professor of Natural Philosophy at Queen's College, Belfast. Matric. Michs. 1864; Scholar, 1865; B.A. (2isi Wrangler) 1868. H.M. Inspector of Schools. {T.A. Walker, S2f,.) STEVEN, ANDREW REA. Matric. Non-CoU., Michs. 1885. STEVENS, ALFRED JAMES. Adm. pens, at St John's, May 19, 1862; re-adm. sizar, Oct. 11, 1862. S. of Thomas [com- merchant] (and Sophia Gallichan). B. Mar. 2, 1842, at St Helier, Jersey. [School, Victoria College, Jersey.] Matnc. Michs. 1862; Scholar, 1864; B.A. {4h Wrangler) 1867; M.A. 1870. Fellow, 1868-1930. Ord. deacon (Ely) 1870; priest, 1871. Assistant Master at Reading Grammar School, 1871-2. being dismissed 'for bad discipline'; at Felsted, i873-4- Returned to St John's, where he remained for the rest of his life, occupying rooms on staircase F, Third Court, from 1883 to 1930. Author of a paper on 'The Repulsion of Solid Bodies Referable to Radiation' in The Engineer, 1876. Died m his rooms, Oct. 23, 1930. Brother of Horace W. P. (1871) and Thomas (1859). {Eagle, xlvi. 103; Crockford; The Times, Oct. 24, 1930.) STEVENS, ARTHUR [ORAM]. Adm. pens, at St John's, Oct. 20, 1879. [3rd] s. of Henry, chemist [of Bury St Edmunds] (and Fanny Rachel). B. Jan. 31, i860, at Stoke Newmgton. Bapt. Feb. 28, i860. School, Bury St Edmunds (C. Sankey, M.A.). Matric. Michs. 1879. Went to Canada. (Bury St Edmunds Sch. List.) STEVENS, BROOKE BRIDGES. Adm. pens, at St Catharine's, July 4, 1809. [S. of the Rev. Thomas (i757), V. of Hehons Bumpstead, Essex. B. at Quaradon, Derbs.] Migrated to Jesus, Oct. 28, 1809. Matric. Michs. 1809; Scholar; B.A. 1813; M.A. 1817. Ord. priest (London) Mar. 6, 1814. STEVENS, CHARLES ABBOT. Adm. pens, (age 18) at Trinity, Apr. 27, 1835. S. of [the Rev.] Robert (i797) (and Elizabeth Mason). [B. Feb. 3, 1817.] School, Westminster. Matnc Michs. 1835; B.A. 1839; M.A. 1842. Ord. deacon (Rochester) 1840; priest, 1841; C. of West Farleigh, Kent, 1840-4- C. of Kensington, 1844-8. C. of Oakham, Rutland, 1851-3 and 1857-60. Minister of St Mark's, Westminster, 1853-5- V. of Goudhurst, Kent, 1860-4- V. of All Saints, Blackheath, 1864-80. V. of Portslade with Hangleton, Sussex, 1880-99. Married, Sept. 12, 1848, Hannah Isaacson, eldest dau. of Andrew King, C.B., R.N. Author, Catalogue of Phaenogamous Plants of Great Britain ; Practical Remarks on Cathedral Music ; Conscience Clause; Tithe Rent Charge Papers; etc. Latterly of Seaford, Sussex, where he died Jan. 4, 1908, aged 90. (Record of Old Westminsters; Crockford; The Times, Jan. 7, 1908.) 31