se 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, 27_n_

Stephen, Sir James, father of Sir James Fitzjames, 25;
birth and early training, 31;
the 'Clapham Sect,' 24_n_;
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 Ecclesiastic