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Admitted 25 November, 1691.

Son of Sir William Stephens, Governour of the Isle of Wight. He was educated at Winchester and Cambridge, where he graduated in 1684. He represented Newport, I.W., in Parliament from 1702 to 1722, when he was unseated, and extravagant expenditure obliged him to flee from his creditors. In 1728 he found employment in Scotland, but in 1736 went on a mission to South Carolina, and subsequently settled as a planter in Georgia, and became President of the Colony in 1743. From this post he retired in 1750, and died in poverty three years later.

He is now remembered for an account he left of the Colony in a treatise on the State of Georgia, published in 1742, a work now very rare.

Admitted 27 February, 1604-5.

Entered on the Register as "Robert Stewart, Knight." He was reputedly the son of Archibald Stewart of Bardye, Wigton, but, as some say, of Patrick Stewart, Earl of Orkney. He accompanied James I. from Scotland, but subsequently served abroad in Sweden, Poland, and Germany. On his return he was employed in Ireland, and in 1638 was made Governour of Culmore Castle and in 1643 of Londonderry. During the Civil Wars he did good service for the king, till in 1649 he was taken prisoner and sent to London for trial. He contrived, however, to escape, upon which he again joined the king's forces in Ireland. At the Restoration he was re-appointed Governour of Londonderry "in consideration of his many services." He retired, however, in 1661, and died about the close of 1670.

Admitted 27 May, 1829.

Eldest son of Henry Stokes of Gibraltar, where he was born 16 June, 1808. He was a schoolfellow of (q.v.) at the school of Mr. Giles at Chatham. His studentship at the Middle Temple was brief, and he settled as a solicitor at Truro in 1832, and there took an active part in local politics and writing for the local press. In 1865 he became Clerk of the Peace for Cornwall, and went to reside at Bodmin, where he died 7 April, 1 895.

His poems on the county obtained for him the title of "laureate of Cornwall," and were favourably regarded by Tennyson, who stayed with the author at Truro in 1848. His chief productions were The Lay of the Desert (1830), having reference to Dartmoor; The Song of Albion (1831); The Vale of Lanherne (1836); Rhymes from Cornwall (1871); Memories (1872); The Chantry Owl and Other Verses (1881); and Restormel, a Legend of Piers Gaveston (1875).

Admitted 5 June, 1762.

Eldest son of Thomas Storer of Golden Square, Westminster (formerly of Westmoreland, Jamaica). He was educated at Eton, where he signalized himself by some Latin verse, and at Cambridge, where he contracted a friendship with Lord Carlisle. In 1774 he entered Parliament for Carlisle, and subsequently sat for Morpeth, and was employed in some diplomatic