Harry Lushington Stephen

Sir Harry Lushington Stephen, 3rd Baronet (1860–1945), son of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen,[1] was born on 2 March 1860. He was educated at Rugby and graduated LLM from Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1904, he married Barbara, youngest daughter of W Shore Nightingale of Embley Romsey and Lea Hurst, Derbyshire. He had one son. He was a member of the following clubs: Athenaeum, Oxford and Cambridge, Savile, Bengal. He was called to the Bar in 1885, and practised on the South Wales Circuit from 1886 to 1901. He became Judge of the High Court, Calcutta,[2][3] on 18 November 1901.[4] He was knighted in 1913.[5]

He is the author of Law of Support and Subsidence,[2][3] 1890. It was "a useful little monograph".[6][7] He was the editor of the fourteenth edition of Oke's Synopsis, the eighth edition of Oke's Formulist and State Trials: Political and Social, 1899.[2][3]

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 [8]