Guy Stephenson

Sir Guy Stephenson CB (1862 – 17 October 1930) was a British barrister, Assistant Treasury Solicitor and Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions.

Life

The Central Criminal Court, or Old Bailey, where Stephenson practised

The eldest son of Sir Augustus Keppel Stephenson KCB QC (1827–1904), Stephenson was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar from the Inner Temple in 1888 and practised as a barrister at the Central Criminal Court and on the South Eastern Circuit. In 1901 he was appointed as counsel to the Treasury at the North London Sessions, and in 1905 as Assistant Treasury Solicitor. From 1908 until his death he served as Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions.^[1] He also was a Captain and later an Honorary Major in the 2nd Volunteer Battalion the Wiltshire Regiment.^[1]

Private life

In 1905 Stephenson married Gwendolen, a daughter of J. G. Talbot, and they had four sons (including John Stephenson, a future Lord Justice of Appeal) and one daughter.^[1][2]

In Who's Who he gave his recreations as shooting, fishing, and golf and his club as Brooks's. His address at the time of his death was 41 Egerton Gardens, London SW3.^[1]

Honours

• Companion of the Order of the Bath, 1915^[1]
• Knight Bachelor, 1923^[1]

Publication

• Archbold's Criminal Pleading (joint editor of 22nd and 23rd editions)^[1]

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