Alexander Condie Stephen
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| Alexander Condie Stephen | |
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| Stephen caricatured by Spy for Vanity Fair, 1902
Stephen caricatured by Spy for Vanity Fair, 1902
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| Born | 20 July 1850 |
| Died | 10 May 1908 (aged 57) |
| Occupation | British diplomat |
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Funerary monument, Brompton Cemetery, London
Sir Alexander Condie Stephen (20 July 1850 – 10 May 1908), KCMG, KCVO, CB was a British diplomat and translator from Russian and Persian.
He was the first translator of Lermontov's long poem "The Demon" into English, in 1875. He translated "Fairy Tales of a Parrot" from Persian in 1880.
He was knighted KCVO on 24 August 1900, for being HM minister resident in Dresden and Coburg. He was Groom in Waiting to King Edward VII from 1901.[1]
He was caricatured in a Vanity Fair "Spy" print on 18 December 1902, as "Russian, Persian and Turkish".
Stephen is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.
References
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27336. p. 4838. 23 July 1901.
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