Russia, Bentham and codification in, 246;
and the Eastern Question, 394, 395

Ryan, Sir Edward, his position in the Privy Council, 89n


St. Christopher's, West Indies, members of the Stephen family at, 2, 11, 14, 16, 17

'St. James's Gazette,' the, particulars concerning, 457n, 460, 474

Sainte-Beuve, the writings of, 226, 298

Salisbury, Sir J. F. Stephen at, 343

Salisbury, Marquis of, 354, 355, 392, 401

Sandars, Thomas Collett, 152, 178, 197

'Sandford and Merton,' 72

'Saturday Review,' the, Sir J. F. Stephen's connection with, 96, 147, 148, 152-165, 167, 375, 466, 468;
its first editor, 149, 150, 165;
some of its noted contributors, 150-152;
characteristics of the journal, 150, 153, 154;
its arraignment of popular idols and contemporary journals, 154-157, 160-162;
secession from, 177;
character of its 'Middles,' 178

Savigny, John Austin and, 356

Schiller, 68

Scott, Dr., at Cambridge, 94

Scott, Sir Walter, 40;
his works quoted, 142, 319, 326;
literary character of his 'History,' 417

Scroggs, Sir William, 419, 420

Seditious libels, 84, 423

Seeley, Professor, and his 'Ecce Homo,' 200, 221

Selborne, Lord, 343;
his connection with the Metaphysical Society, 361

Selden Society, the, its objects, 379

Senior, Nassau, friendship with Sir J. Stephen, 60;
Education Commissioner (1858), 165-167

Sermon on the Mount, the, 126, 132, 213n

Shakespeare's 'Henry the Fifth,' 68

Sharpe, Granville, Sir J. Stephen's acquaintance with, 55

Shelley, views on his essays, 103

Sherbrooke, Lord. See Lowe, Mr. Robert

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 21, 433

Sheridan, Mr., innkeeper at Achill, 409

Sidgwick, Professor, on Sir J. F. Stephen and the 'Apostles,' 103;
his connection with the Metaphysical Society, 361, 362

Simeon, Rev. Charles, founder of the 'Sims,' 35, 128

Simla, Sir J. F. Stephen at, 237, 240, 243, 245, 304

Singh, Ram, of the Kookas sect, 296, 297, 326

Slave trade, the Stephen family and the 2, 15-17, 28, 46, 47, 402

Smart, Christopher, the crazy poet, 4, 5, 9

Smith, Adam, his political economy, 205

Smith, Mr. Bullen, his share in the Indian Contract Act, 276

Smith, Mr. George, Sir J. F. Stephen's connection with, 178, 183, 212, 213

Smith, Mr. Goldwin, connection with the 'Saturday Review,' 150;
Education Commissioner (1858), 165

Smith, Henry John Stephen (mathematician), 120, 185;
memoir, 120n;
estimate of his character and powers, 121;
Stephen's account of their relations, 122

Smith, Mr. Reginald J., 469n, 474

Smith, Sydney, and the 'Clapham Sect,' 55n;
as a clergyman, 118;
and the Church of England, 471

Smith, Mr. W. H., appoints Sir. J. F. Stephen chairman of Ordnance Commission, 462, 463

Smith, Elder & Co., Messrs., publishers of the 'Cornhill Magazine,' 177

Smyth, Professor William, death of, 89

Sneem Harbour, 405

Snow, Captain Parker, arctic explorer, 167, 168, 173

'Social Science Association,' the, Sir J. F. Stephen's address to, 246n

Socialism, Sir J. F. Stephen and, 104, 312, 462

Socinianism, Newman and, 192

Sortaine, Mr., anti-papist, 75

Southey, Robert, his literary labours, 163

Spain, Bentham and codification in, 246

Spanish, Sir J. F. Stephen's study of the language, 435, 464

Spanish Inquisition, 325, 326, 422

Spedding, James, friendship with Sir J. Stephen, 59;
and J. F. Stephen, 97;
an 'Apostle' at Cambridge, 100, 102

Spencer, Mr. Herbert, 311, 453, 454

Spiritual Courts, history of the, 422

Spring Rice, Mr. Cecil, and the 'Etonian,' 470

Stafford election petition, 235

Stanley, Dean, 185;
his sermon on Lord Lawrence, 468

Star Chamber, the, 420

State trials, 146, 156, 379, 417

Staubbach, the, 42

Steele, Sir Richard, his quarrel with Addison, 430

Stent, Mr., Mrs., Miss Anne and Thomas, 9, 12, 13. See also Stephen, Mr. James

Stephen, Mr. Alexander, 2

Stephen, Sir Alexander Condie, K.C.M.G., 1n

Stephen, Sir Alfred, 24, 25;
his pamphlets, 24n;
descendants, 25

Stephen, Miss Anne Mary. See Dicey, Mr. Thomas

Stephen, Miss Caroline Emelia, 65n, 66

Stephen, Miss Elizabeth. See Milner, Mr. William

Stephen, Miss Frances Wilberforce, 42, 65

Stephen, Sir George, 'Life' of his father James Stephen, 24n;
characteristics of, 27;
his career and writings, 28, 29, 113;
marries Miss Ravenscroft, 29n;
his children, 29n;
his death, 29

Stephen, Miss Hannah. See Farish, Professor William

Stephen, Henry John, S. L., his life, writings, and family, 26, 27, 120, 122

Stephen Sir Herbert, 'Note' on Sir J. F. Stephen's life in Ireland, 405-409

Stephen, Mr. Herbert Venn, his birth, 42, 65;
his army experiences, 38;
discussions and relations with J. F. Stephen, 83;
tour to Constantinople and death at Dresden, 88

Stephen, Mr. James, of Ardenbraught, 1n

Stephen, Mr. James, tenant farmer, and family, 1

Stephen, Mr. James, writer on imprisonment for debt, 2;
early history, 2;
adventures on Purbeck Island, 2, 3;
marriage to Miss Sibella Milner, 3, 5, 6;
commercial failure, 3;
manager of Sir John Webbe's estate, 4;
imprisoned in King's Bench prison for debt, 4;
efforts to prove illegality of imprisonment, 4;
consequent popularity among fellow-prisoners, 4, 5;
arguments and writings on the subject, 5, 6;
removed to the 'New Jail,' 5, 6;
'Blarney' Thompson's portrait of, 6;
release of Stephen from prison, 6;
connection with the legal profession, 6-8;
his family, death of his wife, 8;
his death, 8

Stephen, Mr. James, Master in Chancery, at King's Bench Prison, 5, 9;
education and early training, 8, 9;
his relations with the Stents, 9-12;
chequered career, 10;
studies law at Aberdeen, 11;
legal business in London, 11;
his love affairs, 12-15;
life as a journalist, 14;
called to the Bar, 14;
practice at St. Christopher's, 14;
marriage to Miss Stent, 15;
character, 15;
speech against slavery, 15;
attends trial of slaves for murder at Barbadoes, 16;
prosecutes planter for ill-treating negro children, 16;
flourishing law practice at St. Christopher's, 16, 17;
returns to England, 17;
employment in the Cockpit, 17;
joins Wilberforce in his anti-slavery crusade, 17;
death of his first wife, 17;
second marriage, to Mrs. Clarke, 17;
her eccentricities, 18;
relations with Wilberforce, 18;
his pamphlet on the slave trade, 18;
his 'War in Disguise,' 19;
the policy suggested therein adopted by the Government, 19;
enters Parliament, 19, 20;
Brougham's criticism of Stephen, 20;
speech of Stephen in opposition to Benchers' petition, 20, 21;
Parliamentary encounter with Whitbread, 21;
resigns his seat as a protest against slackness of Government in suppressing the slave trade, 21, 22;
Master in Chancery, 22, 32;
death of his second wife, 22;
town and country residences, 22, 23;
his works on the slave trade, 22, 23, 32;
example of his prowess, 23;
his faith in the virtue of port wine, 23;
death and burial, 23, 24;
relatives, 24;
authorities for his life, 24;
his children, 25-33

Stephen, His Honour Judge, son of Serjeant Stephen, 27n

Stephen, Sir James, father of Sir James Fitzjames, 25;
birth and early training, 31;
the 'Clapham Sect,' 24n;
college life, 31;
official appointments, 32;
character, 33;
marriage to Miss Venn, 33, 130;
influence of the Venns over, 36, 59;
visit to the Continent, 41;
birth of his eldest son, 42;
illness, 42;
Counsel to the Colonial Office and Board of Trade, 42;
adopts F. W. Gibbs, 42;
Sir F. J. Stephen's life of his father, 43;
Sir James's 'Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography,' 43, 54;
relations with Sir Henry Taylor, 43;
duties and influence at the Colonial Office, 44-46;
gluttony for work, 45, 50;
nicknames, 46;
interest in the suppression of slavery, 46, 48;
appointed Assistant Under-Secretary, 48;
resigns Board of Trade, 49;
share in the establishment of responsible government in Canada, 49;
sensitive and shy in disposition, 51, 52;
tenacity of opinion, 52;
perfection and richness of his conversational diction, 52-54;
character of his essays and letters, 54, 55;
religious creed and sympathies, 55-59;
distinguished acquaintances and friends, 59, 60;
distaste for general society and feasts, 60, 61;
his ascetic temperament and systematic abstemiousness, 61;
delight in family meetings, 61;
evangelical character of his household, 61-63;
as a father, 63, 64;
physical and personal characteristics, 64;
family, 65;
talks with Fitzjames, 69, 75, 76, 82, 84, 89;
concern for Fitzjames's health, 74-76;
places his sons at Eton, 77, 78;
anxiety concerning his son Herbert, 84;
letter to Fitzjames, 85;
effect of Herbert's death on, 88;
illness and resignation of his post, 89;
made a Privy Councillor and created K.C.B., 89;
Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, 89;
delivery, reception and publication of his lectures, 89, 90;
accepts professorship at Haileybury, 91;
desires a clerical career for Fitzjames, 113, 118;
and Fitzjames's views on theology, 124, 127, 128;
Sir James satirised in 'Little Dorrit,' 159;
his criticisms of Fitzjames's literary work, 162, 163;
on the slavery of a journalistic career, 163, 164;
suggestions to Fitzjames for a legal history, 164, 414;
last days and death, 169, 170;
inscription on his tombstone, 170

Stephen, Lady, birth, 36n;
marriage, 33;
personal characteristics, 39, 40;
love of the poets, 40;
devotion to her husband and children, 40;
serenity of disposition, 40, 41;
religious convictions, 41;
her reminiscences of Switzerland, 42;
her diary, 66, 67;
Sir F. J. Stephen's letters to, from India, 238, 291-296;
last years and death, 300, 301

Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames—Family History: James Stephen (great-grandfather), 1-8;
Master James Stephen (grandfather) and his children, 9-33;
the Venns, 33-41;
Sir James Stephen (father), 41-65

Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames—Early Life: Birth, 65n, 66;
material for his biography, 66, 67;
examples of a retentive memory, 67, 68;
infantile greeting to Wilberforce, 67;
acquaintance with the poets and other standard works, 68, 69;
precocious views on religion and moral conduct, 69-72;
love for his father, their talks on theology and other subjects, 69, 71, 75, 76, 82, 84;
home life and behaviour, 71, 72;
school life at Brighton and the effect of an excess of Evangelical theology received there, 72-74, 76;
visits Rugby, impression of Dr. Arnold, 76;
at Eton, account of his public school life, 77-82;
argument with Herbert Coleridge on the subject of Confirmation, 82;
contempt for sentimental writers, 83;
discussions with his brother Herbert on ethics, 83, 84;
progress at Eton, his contemporaries and amusements, 84, 85;
visit to the Beamonts, 85;
leaves Eton, 86;
enters King's College, London, 86;
enters its debating society, 87;
progress of his studies, 87;
his opinion of Henry Venn, 87;
and Dr. Jelf, 88;
relations with F. D. Maurice, 88;
death of his brother Herbert, 88;
analysis of his character in his Cambridge days, 91, 92;
dislike for mathematics and classics, 93, 94;
Mr. Watson on his Cambridge career, 94, 95;
distaste for athletics generally, 95;
but fondness for walking as an exercise, 96;
his Alpine ascents, 96;
tutors and contemporaries at Cambridge, 97;
his share in a scene during one of the debates, at the Union, 98, 99;
encounters with Sir William Harcourt, 99, 106;
connection with the Cambridge Conversazione Society, 100-108;
themes supported by him whilst an 'Apostle,' 103-106;
theological opinions at this period, 106;
interest in contemporary politics, the French Revolution, 107-109;
and the Gorham case, 109;
visits Paris, 109;
his affection for Cambridge and reasons for his failure there, 110-114;
reading for the Bar, 114;
autobiographical memoranda and criticisms dealing with the choice of a profession, 114-116;
a clerical career suggested, 117;
enters the Inner Temple, 118;
early legal education and practice, 118, 119;
introduction to journalism, 119;
takes LL.B. degree, Lond., 119;
relations with Grant Duff and Smith, 119-122;
his readings of Stephen's Commentaries, Bentham, Greg, Lardner, and Paley, 123, 124;
impressions of Maurice, 124, 125;
recollections of his theology by Mr. Llewelyn Davies, 125, 126;