llowing among other works: _Life of the
late James Stephen_ by his son, Sir George Stephen, Victoria, 1875 (this
little book, written when the author's memory was failing, is full of
singular mistakes, a fact which I mention that I may not be supposed to
have overlooked the statements in question but which it is needless to
prove in detail); _Jottings from Memory_ (two interesting little
pamphlets privately printed by Sir Alfred Stephen in 1889 and 1891); and
Wilberforce's _Life and Letters_ (containing letters and incidental
references). In Colquhoun's _Wilberforce, his Friends and his Times_
(1886), pp. 180-198, is an account of Stephen's relations to
Wilberforce, chiefly founded upon this. See also Roberts' _Hannah More_
(several letters); Brougham's _Speeches_ (1838), i. pp. 402-414 (an
interesting account partly quoted in Sir J. Stephen's _Clapham Sect_, in
_Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography_); Henry Adam's _History of the
United States_ (1891), iii. pp. 50-52 and elsewhere; Walpole's _Life of
Perceval_.]
[Footnote 18: He served also in 1842 upon a Commission of Inquiry into
the forgery of Exchequer bills.]
[Footnote 19: Serjeant Stephen's wife and a daughter died before him. He
left two surviving children: Sarah, a lady of remarkable ability, author
of a popular religious story called _Anna; or, the Daughter at Home_,
and a chief founder of the 'Metropolitan Association for Befriending
Young Servants,' who died unmarried, aged 79, on January 5, 1895; and
James, who edited some of his father's books, was judge of the County
Court at Lincoln, and died in November 1894. A short notice of the
serjeant is in the _Law Times_ of December 24, 1894.]
[Footnote 20: _Life of James Stephen_, p. 36.]
[Footnote 21: By his wife, a Miss Ravenscroft, he had seven children,
who all emigrated with him. The eldest, James Wilberforce Stephen, was
fourth wrangler in 1844 and Fellow of St. John's College, and afterwards
a judge in the colony of Victoria.]
[Footnote 22: His _Constitution of a Christian Church_ (1846) was
republished, in 1874, as _Churches the Many and the One_, with
additional notes by his son, the Rev. Samuel Garratt, now rector of St.
Margaret's, Ipswich, and canon of Norwich.]
[Footnote 23: _Lectures_, vol. i. preface.]
[Footnote 24: Preface to _Slavery Delineated_, i. pp. lix.-lxx. My
grandfather takes some trouble to show--and, as I think, shows
conclusively--that the appointment mentioned in the tex
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